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János Pilinszky (translated by Ted Hughes & János Csokits)

David Ignatow

Another by Kim Addonizio

I love your amethyst eyes and your Protestant thighs

and this fine-spun white sadness Federico García Lorca, tr. Christopher Maurer

In 27 years I've drunk fifty thousand beers And they just wash against me Like the sea into a pier

Today’s Saturday poem chosen by our poetry editor Ralph Dartford comes from Raymond Carver.

Nothing sexier than a man who is visibly tormented by his conscience.

Alice Notley, with a mother's desperate plea.

Al Young

― Emily Dickinson

anne carson beauty of the husband i think about you every day

19 March, 1941 (Wellesley, MA) I kiss you, my darling, my incomparable little feather.

― Friedrich Nietzsche