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Poetry on the Brink

Increasingly, the “true voice of feeling” is the one you discover with an inspired, if sometimes accidental click.

Marjorie Perloff

Arts in Society

from "That Were Once Beautiful Children"

Editor’s note: Boston Review first published this poem from Claudia Rankine’s That Were Once

Claudia Rankine

Arts in Society

At the Edge of the Bed

No one yet has ever chosen misery Those that seem to have done so Haven’t any more than they

Geoffrey G. O'Brien

Arts in Society

Certain Allied Experiments

To be very young and beached on a couch. Describe this feeling as rubber, warm to the

Lily Brown

Arts in Society

Recommendation: Monica A. Hand’s me and Nina

I love taking trains, particularly Soul Trains, and the Amtrak ride from Chicago to New York City

Thomas Sayers Ellis

Arts in Society

Pretty Little Failboat

THE poems in that book suck bug nuts. I believe you know the drill. I must find the woman

Anthony Madrid

Arts in Society

The Precision Chromatic Ray Race of People

WHO is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? Margaret’s mother was

Anthony Madrid

Arts in Society

Milk the Dog and Walk the Cow

MILK the dog and walk the cow. I’ll bet you twenty-five cents. A courtly old demon, kind to

Anthony Madrid

Arts in Society

Order and Kinetics

        I take place in the picosecond with the frequency of light converted

Claire Donato

Arts in Society

When All the Leaves

When all the leaves fell the wasp nest hung in its gray paper, bobbing in the empty

Oni Buchanan

Arts in Society

For My Son

  To marry Alison, Robert, will be to haul water from a deep well for the rest of your

Stephen Dunn

Arts in Society

Recommendation: Elizabeth Willis’s Address

“I is to they / as river is to barge,” writes Elizabeth Willis in the opening lines

Richard Deming

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