Editor’s Note: This poem by Diane Glancy is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. I met a beautiful man who’d cooked chicken and rice / and... Read More

Anyone with more than a passing interest in grammar, style, and usage has likely been chided once or a million times to focus on what really matters, because, after all, “You know what I mean!” Sometimes, of course, this is true; a... Read More

Editor’s Note: This poem by Myrna Stone is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. Dresden, Germany, June, 1852 If you have read them, Otto, you... Read More

African Americans have allies of all races in the continuing fight for racial equality in the United States. It doesn’t matter what color you are, anybody can speak out against injustice. But “we’re in this together” can only go... Read More

Editor’s Note: This poem by Cathryn Hankla is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. To be constantly reminded of who won the war. / To be... Read More

Editor’s Note: This poem by Aaron Rosen is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. On God-watch, his words / deprived of destiny / rejoice in... Read More

Ann Arbor is gray and drizzly for Deepak Unnikrishnan’s first visit. Fresh from stops on both coasts, the New York/Abu Dhabi-based writer asks the timezone and sets his watch as we sit down. His first book, Temporary People, was... Read More

Editor’s Note: This poem by Kathy Fagan is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. The cottonwood pollen is flying again, / Adrift like snow or... Read More