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“[“I knew almost for certain…”]” by Vasyl Stus (translated by Alan Zhukovski) - thenation.com/article/cultur… online @thenation

from Elisa Gabbert’s “Random Assignment”: You can't ever get what you want, You can't please any of the people Any of the time. Time just lies there, Not fast or slow, Any more than a line. - in the January issue of @thenation

from “Stay-at-Home” by Matthew Buckley Smith: “Bedtime grows later. There is always hope For sex if we’re not tired. We’re tired a lot. My wife works hard. I do the best I can. No one who looks at me can see a man.” - in the September issue of @thenation

Our language, just like every other catch phrase and dance move, taken, appropriated, pop-culturalized into a tweetable talking point. Now we're “woke.” —from January O’Neil’s “Woke Ghazal” - thenation.com/article/cultur…

“Here lies Antoinette and a facsimile report on the dearth of formula water milk toilet paper bread all gone during a juicy-sesh of self-care slash thoughts and prayers. Headless, we got carried away.” —Jessica Q. Stark, “Royal Pardon” - thenation.com/article/cultur…

“Cousin Rust, with your look of blood and sunset, I’m almost in love with the lace you’ve made of metal” from “Witch” by Rae Armantrout - in the latest issue of @thenation

“some day the night curved as a sky sinking inside an eye” from Michael Wasson’s “Of Historical Significance - in the latest issue of @thenation

excerpts from L. Lamar Wilson’s “Missionary” thenation.com/article/cultur… - May 30, 2024 L. Lamar Wilson’s poetics appears in two collections, Sacrilegion and Prime; the stage production The Gospel Truth; and the film The Changing Same, a Rada Film Group collaboration.

“My mother is my favorite immigrant. After her? The sonnet.” —Eduardo C. Corral, “To a Blossoming Saguaro” - Happy Mother’s Day! thenation.com/article/cultur…

“I had been lied to. Women, too, were violent.” from “Sapphic Fragment” by Madeleine Cravens @madeleinecrave_ - May 2, 2024 thenation.com/article/cultur…

Happy national poetry month! On the first day of April, we offer you this excerpt from “Aia i hea ka wai o Lahaina?” by Brandy Nālani McDougall, Dana Naone Hall, and No’u Revilla For a full experience of this polyphonic poem: thenation.com/article/cultur…

“Because I was terrified, I learned nothing.” —Paul Guest, “Walking the Land” thenation.com/article/cultur…

Camille Dungy’s latest poem “Remembering a honeymoon hike near Drakes Bay, California, while I cook our dinner at the feet of Colorado’s Front Range” below: thenation.com/article/archiv…

“I admitted am not a good man. I am selfish. I have my father’s dentition, his regalia of shame.” —Akpa Arinzechukwu, “Sentencing” Read poem here: thenation.com/article/archiv…

new poem in the march issue of @thenation--thanks @NationPoetry 💜💜

“Come REM, come starry comas sopped in sepia, how come you keep on slipping past my sleepier defenses, the walk-on cameo of my dreams?” from "A Portrait of the Artist as I Hate You" by Christopher Spaide #latest in print #poem from #thenation March 2024 issue @thenation

“Sputnik in the news. Mother in her vestal suit, clutching the whimpering canine, both of them orphans, inscrutable. Stray smiles emerging. Did I imagine it?” —Safiya Sinclair, “After the Last Astronauts Had Left Us, II (Laika)” 2016 @thenation thenation.com/article/archiv…

“Night Watch” by Catherine Barnett:

"Don't worry, I will return," were not his dying words. He had no dying words. There was no pretense, no implosion. 11:00 p.m. He was quiet, remote, dying, sheer as a curtain. exc. from Catherine Barnett’s “Night Watch” - up now @thenation thenation.com/article/cultur…