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Michelle Bitting

Permeable, Smitten

Piped in Lennon penetrates veins, ignites

obsession. I become sound, a black box speaker

tipped to kiss stage floor, deaf dancer

pirouetting on the boom beat of desire,

her percussive metatarsals. Oh to buzz about

something else, rearrange the marquee. Your role

not stroking the fine hairs of my spine, just so.

The after show remains unseen: a room

at the Chateau Marmont, my naked knees

reciting Keats every which way. Reservations

we’d press from wet ashes of our burning houses.

Strange, how I’ve never loved my husband,

bare-fleshed in the kitchen, more. Your eyes,

a feast of saints, my hands inhaling two worlds.

Michelle Bitting earned an MFA in creative writing from Pacific University, Oregon. Her poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Prairie Schooner, and Narrative Magazine, and have been featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily. In 2007, Thomas Lux chose her Good Friday Kiss as winner of the DeNovo First Book Award. This poem, “Permeable, Smitten,” won first place in the annual Beyond Baroque Poetry Competition, 2011, selected by Joyce Jenkins; it appears in Notes to the Beloved, winner of the Sacramento Poetry Center Book Contest, 2011. Michelle Bitting lives in Los Angeles, where she teaches in the UCLA Extension Writer’s Program and with California Poets in the Schools.

Archive

Adjarian, M.M.: "I, Not Robot"

Albert, Mimi: "Existential Cocktail," a review of Andrew Foster Altschul's Deus Ex Machina

Albert, Mimi: "Underground Heaven," a review of Thaisa Frank's Heidegger's Glasses

Albert,Mimi: "Virgin Territory," a review of Judy Juanita's Virgin Soul

Albertano, Linda J.: "Truth Against Lies: Suzanne Lummis Speaks Poetry to Power at Beyond Baroque," a review of Truth Against Lies, a performance of Suzanne Lummis's COLA [City of Los Angeles] fellowship work on January 3, 2020 at Beyond Baroque

Alter, Dan: "Luminous Facts," a review of Andy Mister's Liner Notes

Alter, Dan: "The Uses of Awkwardness," a review of Joshua Beckman's The Inside of an Apple

Amos, Seth: "Negotiating Space," a review of Maw Shein Win's Storage Unit for the Spirit House

Armitage, Shelley: "Land of My Father's War," a review of Phyllis Meshulam's Land of My Father's War

Ashton, Sally: "Candles in the Branches," a review of Chad Sweeney's Parable of Hide and Seek

Ashton, Sally: Poems from Listening to Mars

Ashton, Sally: Two from The Behaviour of Clocks

Bakken, Dick: "Letter from Debra," "High in Idaho Rockies," and "What is Sleep"

Baugher, Janée J.: "Year of the Cicada" and "Among Us, Dorothy Allison"

Beck, Jeffrey P.: "When the poem finishes itself: An Interview with Miles Champion"

Behm-Steinberg, Hugh: Two Poems

Bitting, Michelle: "Permeable, Smitten"

Black, Rose: "At the Prison a Steel Cage Opens"

Black, Rebecca: "To Feel About a Place: An Interview with John Shoptaw"

Bloch, Ben: "Lullaby"

Brumer, Andy: "The Sign for Infinity," a review of Diane di Prima's Haiku

Cariaga, Catalina: "Owning the Brownness," a review of Barbara Jane Reyes' Letters To A Young Brown Girl

Cherkovski, Neeli: "Gary's Mountain: An Excerpt from a Memoir-in-Progress"

Cohen, Susan: "Afterlife"

Cohen, Susan: "The News from Poems: Why Poetry Matters Now"

Coleman, Sharon: Four from Paris Blinks

Coleman, Sharon: "To Span Cultures & Place: A Visit to CAT Towers"

Coleman,Sharon: "Who Has the Body? A Poetic Series by Donna de la Perrière," a review of Saint Erasure and True Crime

Colker, Larry: Four Poems: "Reunification," "Guardian Angel," "The Leap," and "Projector"

Crossman, Ruth: "She Used to Be a Tarot Queen"

Crux, Lauren: "On Reading Anne Carson's Nox"

Day, Lucille Lang: "A Poetry of Compassion," a review of Daniel Marlin and Ralph Dranow's At Work on the Garments of Refuge

Day, Lucille Lang: "A Self, Lost and Found," a review of Sandra McPherson's The 5150 Poems

Day, Lucille Lang: "Creation's Blessing," a review of Marcia Falk's Inner East: Illuminated Poems and Blessings

Day, Lucille Lang: "Phrases Lost & Found," a review of Toni Mirosevich's The Takeaway Bin

Day, Lucille Lang: "To Be a Poet"

Deming, Alison Hawthorne: Two poems from Stairway to Heaven

Dobreer, Peggy: "Echoes Into the Miraculous," review of Alicia Elkhort's A Map of Every Undoing

Dobreer, Peggy: "Erasing the Times," a review of Heather Aimee O’Neill and Jessica Piazza's Obliterations

Dobreer, Peggy: "Essential Mysteries," a review of Mariano Zaro's Decoding Sparrows

Dobreer, Peggy: "History of the Future," review of Brendan Constantine's Dementia, My Darling

Dobreer, Peggy: "The Roles She's Played," a review of Juliana McCarthy's Everything Hurts

Downs, Jane: "Golden Nails," a review of Naomi Ruth Lowinsky's adagio & lamentation

Downs, Jane: "Horse"

Dunkle, Iris Jamahl: "Breathe Deeply, a Poetic Resistance to the Unknown," a review of Ann Fisher-Wirth's Mississippi and Brenda Hillman's The Extra Hidden Life, among the Days

Dunkle, Iris Jamahl: "Dissolving the Map," a review of Gillian Conoley's A Little More Red Sun on the Human

Egert, Nina: "Japan Teaches Nothing But Simplicity: Yone Noguchi’s East Bay Legacy"

Ehret, Terry: "Geometry of Air: The Poetry of Ulalume González de León"

Ehret, Terry: "How Fascism Will Come"

Eisner, Mark: "New Blakean Visions" a review of Hélène Cardona's Dreaming My Animal Selves / Le Songe de mes Âmes Animales

Entrekin, Gail Rudd: "Embracing the Ashes," a review of Gail Newman's Blood Memory

Fleming, Gerald: Poems from The Bastard and the Bishop

Foley, Jack: "A Marvelous Ride," a review of George Keenen's Record

Foley, Jack: "A Tribute to Larry Eigner"

Foley, Jack: Adelle Foley (1940-2016)

Foley, Jack: "A Few Notes On David Meltzer (1937-2016): Visionary With Red-Hot Coins"

Foley, Jack: "For Julia"

Foley, Jack: "Misbehavin'," a review of Jan Steckel's Life Flesh Covers Bone

Foley, Jack: "H.D. Moe (1937-2013): Fluxional, Vehicular and Transitive"

Foley, Jack: "No More Inhibitions": Philip Lamantia (1927-2005), essay on The Collected Poems

Foley, Jack: "Old Italian Living: On Ferlinghetti"

Foley, Jack: "TRUMPERY," a review of Paul Fericano's Things That Go Trump in the Night: Poems of Treason and Resistance

Foley, Jack: "The Bohemian Edge," a review of A.D. Winans' cityscapes: a quilt of poetry

Foley, Jack: "The Garden of Her Mind," a review of Invisible Gifts: Poems, by Maw Shein Win

Foley, Jack: "The Sound of Al Young Remembered"

Foley, Jack: "Uncle Dog Becomes a Bodhisattva: On Robert Sward's Work"

Foust, Rebecca: "She Asked For Light: A Conversation with Susan Terris"

Foust, Rebecca: "Unspooling," review of Susan Kolodny's After the Firestoem

Francis, Andrea K.: "Poetry Off the Page"

Frankel, Alex M.: "A Bemused Poet Lost in the Jungle," review of Paul Suntup's Sunset at the Temple of Olives

Fritzinger, Dennis: "Our Question Answered," a review of Nanao Sakaki's How to Live on the Planet Earth

Gach, Gary: "Full Circle Rhapsody," review of Maxine Hong Kingston's I Love a Broad Margin to My Life

García, Ramón: "Feminist Carnivalesque and Something Other: An Interview with Gail Wronsky"

Gelfand, Joan: "The Thrill of the Liminal," a review of Jacqueline Berger's The Day You Miss Your Exit

Gilbert, Dorothy: "The Forest of Hands," "Bear Genes," and "Bee Purple"

Gilbert, Sandra M.: "Secrets on the Way: Dance Theatre inspired by Tranströmer's Poetry"

Gilbert, Sandra M.: "Three Musing Women: A Dickinson Triptych," review of Kathryn Roszak's Pensive Spring: A Portrait of Emily Dickinson

Goff, Tom: "Between Flow and Shape," a review of Mary Mackey's Creativity: Where Poems Begin

Goff, Tom: "Chopin as Poet," a review of Susan Kelly-DeWitt's Gravitational Tug

Goff, Tom: "Durable Beauty," review of Peter Neil Carroll's Frangible Operas: Poems

Goldsmith, Marianne: "Bert Meyers (1928-1979): An Archival Memory"

González de León, Ulalume: Poems from Plagios, Translated by Terry Ehret, John Johnson, and Nancy J. Morales

Goodman, Jessy: "Look at All the Books," a review of Jeffrey Eugenides' The Marriage Plot

Goss, Erica: Rediscovering Childhood: A User's Guide

Gunter, Susan E.: "The Whale's Breath," a review of Meryl Natchez' Catwalk

Halebsky, Judy: Poems from Spring and a Thousand Years (Unabridged)

Halebsky, Judy: "All She Did Was __________ My Hand," "Motel 6," and "Sitting Beside Adrienne Rich at the Yehuda Amichai Reading, Berkeley 1998"

Harjo, Joy: "In Dreamtime"

Harjo, Joy: "Sunrise"

Harlan, Megan: "Letting the Questions Stand," a review of Jennifer K. Sweeney's How to Live on Bread and Music

Harleman, Ann: "Love's Outposts," a review of Joyce Thompson's Conscience Place

Higgins, George: "Not Icarus"

Higgins, George: "The Famous Black Poet," review of Of Poetry and Protest: From Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin, Philip Cushway and Michael Warr, editors

Hill, Owen: "The Road to Excess: F.A. Nettelbeck (1950-2011)"

Hinkle, Scott: "Weaving the Heebie-Jeebies," a review of Denis Johnson's Train Dreams: A Novella

Hirshfield, Jane: As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us

Hirshfield, Jane: As If Hearing Heavy Furniture Moved on the Floor Above Us

Hutchins, Christina: "I Met a Silence"

Isaacson, Bruce: "An Everything Man: The Passing of Michael McClure"

Isaacson, Bruce: "Long Line of Beginnings," a review of Diane di Prima's The Poetry Deal

Isaacson, Bruce: "Swinging with the Afterbeat," a review of Andy Clausen's BEAT: The Latter Days of the Beat

Johnson, Javon: "Saving Lives Through Poetry: Da Poetry Lounge as Family and Community"

Johnson, John: "The Only Blooming Thing," a review of Kathleen Winter's Transformer

Joron, Andrew: "Fossil Flames," review of Susan Gervitz's Burns

Joron, Andrew: "The Existential Question," a review of Brian Strang's Are You Afraid?

Keithley, George: "Building a Fire," and "Wild River"

Kelly-DeWitt, Susan: "A Spirit-Handshake: Kjell Espmark"

Kelly-DeWitt, Susan: Elegy for a Beloved Poet

Kelly-Dewitt, Susan: "The Enemies of Glass," review of Margaret Hoehn's Five Prayers of Apples

Kelly-Dewitt, Susan: "One Wild Word," review of Dorianne Laux's Facts About the Moon

Kelly-DeWitt, Susan: "Poem Built Entirely of Questions and Couplets"

Kessler, Stephen: "Hahaha: Wanda Coleman's Last Laugh"

Kessler, Stephen: "Golden Codger: The Odd Career of Richard O. Moore"

Kessler, Stephen: "The Poet as Provocateur: Amiri Baraka (1934-2014)"

Kevorkian, Karen: "Dark Red and Green"

Khosla, Maya: Poems from All the Fires of Wind and Light

Kinal, Destiny: "Breaking Silence," a review of Fire and Ink: An Anthology of Social Action Writing

Kline, Peter: Poems from Mirrorforms

Kolin, Philip C.: "Then and Now," review of Peter Neil Carroll's Sketches from Spain: Homage to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade

Kraman, Cynthia: Poems Read at the American Poets Congress, NYC

Kraman, Cynthia: "The Felt World," a review of Lindsay Hill's Sea of Hooks

Kraman Genser, Cynthia: "From the 'Schwartzman and Brightman Poems'" and "The Imaginary/The Angel of Cinema in the 60's"

Kuzma, Greg: "Companion Time," a review of Glenna Luschei's The Sky is Shooting Blue Arrows

Landauer, Carl: "Filling the Blank Page," a review of Iván Argüelles' The Blank Page

Landauer, Carl: "Kilometer Zero Paris: George Whitman’s Shakespeare and Company," a review of Shakespeare and Company, Paris: A History of the Rag & Bone Shop of the Heart, edited by Krista Halverson

Landauer, Carl: "To David Meltzer
(48th hour after his last hour on earth)"

Landauer, Carl: "The Delicate Art of Survival," review of Rooja Mohassessy's When Your Sky Runs Into Mine

Landauer, Carl: "cummingsngoings," review of Susan Cheever's E.E. Cummings: A Life

Leatham, Kent.: "Fake Book"

Lummis, Suzanne: "Larry Colker (1947-2018), a Sweetheart of a Guy"

Lipton, Rob: "Arguing with God," a review of Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic

Lipton, Rob: "Secrets Almost Told," review of Katie Farris's boysgirls

Loranger, Richard: "Postscript for Julia Vinograd"

Loranger, Richard: "Sailing the Brine," a review of R. Nemo Hill's Magellan's Reveries

Loranger, Richard: Untitled selections from Sudden Windows

Low, Denise: "The Corporeal World: An Interview with Michael Walsh"

Luboff Pepper: "An Uneasy Motheresee," a review of Jessica Fisher's Inmost

Lucas, Terry: "All Worlds," a review of Joan Baranow's In The Next Life

Lucas, Terry: "Cold, Cold Feeling," review of Larry Levis's The Darkening Trapeze: Last Poems

Lummis, Suzanne: "Larry Colker (1947-2018), a Sweetheart of a Guy"

Lummis, Suzanne: "South of the Grapevine: Three Poets, Thirty-Three Lines"

Lummis, Suzanne: "Tower of Power: The Life of Linda J. Albertano"

Lummis, Suzanne: "When Larry Left Town", a collaborative group poem for Larry Colker from Suzanne Lummis's Poetry Workshop

Mack, Melissa: "Utopian Rhythm," a review of Lisa Robertson's R's Boat

Mackey, Mary: "After Carnival"

Mackey, Mary: "Dreaming of the Bullet-Proof Cars of Maceió"

Mandrachio, Richard: "Survival Strategies: An Interview with Michael Alenyikov"

March, Barbara: "Riding the Dragon: An Interview with Joseph Stroud"

March, Barbara: "In Rilke's Footsteps: An Interview with Willis Barnstone"

Marshall, Jack: "Bird, are you still" and "The Curve"

Mayer, Bill: "Remembering Jack Gilbert: The Last Reading"

Mayer, Bill: "Silence Is Imaginary Because The World Never Stops Making Noise."

McCrea, Megan: "The Right to Breathe," review of the 2010 film Howl

McCrea, Megan: "Something to Believe In: S.A. Griffin & the Poetry Bomb"

Meyers, Bert: "Gently, Gently," "Pencil Sharpener," "Sunflowers," "To My Enemies," and "The Gilder"

Miller, Carolyn: "Fruit Focaccia: Breakfast with Susan," an homage for Susan Herron Sibbet (1942-2013)

Monpere, Claudia: "Searching" and "On Algebra Clouds of Unknown Values"

Monroy, Rosalinda: "Interpreting Interpretation," a review of Rebecca Gaydos' Güera

Monroy, Rosalinda: "Measuring Crisis," a review of Kristin George Bagdanov's Fossils in the Making

Morejón, Nancy: from Where the Island Sleeps Like a Wing: Selected Poetry

Morris, Wilda: "A Rage for Wildness: An Interview with Tony Barnstone"

Morse, Jesse: "Between Tildes ~ Writing as Mosaic ~," a review of Elizabeth Cooperman and Thomas Walton's The Last Mosaic

Natchez, Meryl: "Fireflies in a Jar: An Interview with Maurya Simon"

Natchez, Meryl: "Her Atoms," a review of Dorianne Laux's Only as the Day Is Long

Natchez, Meryl: "Starting with Fire," a review of Bullets into Bells: Poets & Citizens Respond to Gun Violence, edited by Brian Clements, Alexandra Teague, and Dean Rader

Nelson, Victoria: "50 Berkeley 50"

Newman, Gail: "My Father Picks Flowers in the Neighbor's Garden"

Nicosia, Gerald: "Larry Keenan, Photographer"

Nicosia, Gerald: "Jack Mueller: Still Solid in the Mystery"

Nolan, Pat: "Always Better Than You Thought," a review of If Wants To Be The Same As Is: Essential Poems of David Bromige, Bob Perelman, Ron Silliman, Jack Krick, editors

Nolan, Pat: "The Quantum of Kerouac"

Parsons, Mick: "Fruit of the Poisoned Tree," a review of Gerald Nicosia's Kerouac: The Last Quarter Century

Pence, Amy: "Restless Spirits: An Interview with Cecilia Woloch"

Perchik, Simon: "*"

Pinson, Hermine: "Journey with Alice," review of giovanni singleton's Ascension

Potts, Randall: "Tanka," "Washroom, After the Spill," and "Walk"

Powell, D.A.: "cancer inside a little sea"

Pryputniewicz, Tania: "Mordred’s Dream: A Refusal"

Raab, Zara: "A Meadow Afterward," a review of Lucie Brock-Broido's Stay, Illusion

Raab, Zara: "Poet's Almanac," review of Dean Rader's Works & Days

Raab, Zara: "Reggae Riddim," review of Kamau Brathwaite's Elegguas

Raab, Zara: "Stripped Island," review of Lenore Weiss's Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island

Rader, Dean: "What of the What?" review of Rachel Loden's Dick of the Dead

Raskin, Jonah: "House on Fire," review of Elizabeth C. Herron's In the Cities of Sleep

Raskin, Jonah: "Patriarchy Bends: Poet & Novelist Mary Mackey Honored at Harvard"

Reynolds, Meg: "The Long Authentic Process: An Interview with Dorianne Laux"

Robles, Jaime: Colleen Lookingbill (December 3, 1950-March 30, 2014)

Rogers, Julie: "For Example"

Rogow, Zack: "Lorca's Local Modernism"

Rogow, Zack: "My Own Shadows," a review of Amina Saïd's The Present Tense of the World: Poems 2000-2009

Rogow, Zack: "The Range of Mary Ruefle's Mind ," a review of Mary Ruefle's Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures

Rossi, Lee: "The 1519 Project," review of Linda Ravenswood's A Poem Is a House

Rossi, Lee: "Complex Coding: A Conversation with Adrian Matejka"

Rossi, Lee: "Green Birth, Green Death: An Interview with D. Nurkse"

Rossi, Lee: "Interrogating the Unconscious," a review of Curt Anderson's The Occasionist

Rossi, Lee: "Mother Fire: An Interview with Kim Shuck, 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco"

Rossi, Lee: "Lunar Losses," a review of Danusha Laméris's The Moons of August

Rossi, Lee: "Prisoner of Childhood," a review of Camille Norton's A Folio for the Dark

Rossi, Lee: "Standing on One Leg," a review of Gerald Fleming's One

Rossi, Lee: "The Dress of Waters," a review of Lola Haskin's The Grace to Leave

Rossi, Lee: "The Elements of Gary Soto," a review of Gary Soto's The Elements of San Joaquin

Rossi, Lee: "The Fin in the Water: An Interview with Martín Espada"

Rossi, Lee: "The Magic Number: An Interview with Margaret Randall"

Rossi, Lee: "The Memory Trick," a review of Jody Bolz's Shadow Play

Rossi, Lee: "The Unequal Struggle," a review of Adeeba Shahid Talukder's Shahr-e-jaanaan: The City of the Beloved

Rossi, Lee: "What We Can Do: An Interview with Carolyn Forché"

Schain, Eliot: "Time and the Poet" a review of The Moon Before Morning and The Shadow of Sirius

Schelling, Andrew: "MOUNT BLANCA with UTE CREEK at DAWN"

Seter, Dave: "The Future Has Arrived," review of Ardengo Soffici's Simultaneities and Lyric Chemisms, translated by Olivia Sears

Seter, Dave: "To 'In-Breathe' in Wonder," review of Emilie Lygren's What We Were Born For

Shaddock, David: "On the Biden Inauguration"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "Grief, Vulnerability, and War: Lessons from Book VI of Virgil's Aeneid"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "Poets as Healers: The Legacy of Robert Bly (1926-2021)"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "Jericho Brown and the Poetry of Emancipation"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "You Want It Darker, But Who Is The You? A Dialog Between Leonard Cohen and Peter Dale Scott"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "'A God More Powerful than I': Dante’s Surrender to Love in La Vita Nuova"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "Natalie Diaz's 'Postcolonial Love Poem'"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "Tell It Slant: Emily Dickinson and the Importance of Indirection"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "A Shadow in the Day’s Brilliance: Denise Levertov on Living with Our Grief for the World"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "The Phenomenology of Addiction: Two Poems by Dawn McGuire"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "Who Has No Shadow Has No Strength to Live: 'Faith' by Czeslaw Milosz"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "Infinite Wrath and Infinite Despair: What John Milton's Satan Can Tell Us about Donald Trump"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "Mother of Muses: A Prayer from Bob Dylan at 80"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "Some Poems to Help Survive the Current Pandemic"

Shaddock, David: [Poetry and Healing] "Where the Miraculous Slips In: A Tribute to Dean Young, 1955-2022"

Shaddock, David: "To Call Things by Their Right Names," review of Peter Dale Scott's Tilting Point

Shears, Matt: "Alter(n)ations #54"

Shein, Keith: "The Made Thing," a review of Cathy Colman's Time Crunch

Silberg, Richard: "The Abyss of Happiness" a review of Paul Verlaine's Songs without Words, translated by Donald Revell

Silberg, Richard: Bill Berkson (1939-2016)

Silberg, Richard: "Breaching the Real," review of D. Nurkse's A Country of Strangers, New and Selected Poem

Silberg, Richard: C.D. Wright, 1949-2016

Silberg, Richard: About Chana Bloch (1940-2017)

Silberg, Richard: "Desperate Others," review of Balam Rodrigo's Central American Book of the Dead

Silberg, Richard: "Flying with 'Julia' Poems: Julia Vinograd (1943-2018)"

Silberg, Richard: Francisco X. Alarcón, 1954-2016

Silberg, Richard: "New & Noted," Sarah—Of Fragments and Lines, by Julie Carr; When I Was a Poet, by David Meltzer; Destroyer and Preserver, by Matthew Rohrer; Angles of Approach, by Holly Iglesias; Army Cats, by Tom Sleigh

Silberg, Richard: "New & Noted," The Plot Genie, Gillian Conoley; Shadow Ball, New and Selected Poems, Charles Harper Webb; And So, Joel Brouwer; We Don't Know We Don't Know, Nick Lantz; Practical Water, Brenda Hillman

Silberg, Richard: "New & Noted," Black Crow Dress, by Roxane Beth Johnson; ; Home Burial, by Michael McGriff; Our Andromeda, by Brenda Shaughnessy; Incarnadine, by Mary Szybist; The Multiple, by Calvin Bedient

Silberg, Richard: "New & Noted," The new black, by Evie Shockley; ; How Long, by Ron Padgett; Flies, by Michael Dickman; Address, by Elizabeth Willis; Coral Road, by Garrett Hongo

Silberg, Richard: "New & Noted," The King, by Rebecca Wolff; Trance Archive, New and Selected Poems, by Andrew Joron; Noose and Hook, by Lynn Emanuel; Otherwise Elsewhere, by David Rivard; Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been, New and Selected Poems, by Chase Twichell

Silberg, Richard: "Opening Out," review of Gary Snyder's This Present Moment

Silberg, Richard: "Orchestrations," a review of Robert Duncan's The H.D. Book

Silberg, Richard: "Our Compartment of Time," a review of Robert Pinsky's Selected Poems

Silberg, Richard: "Flowering Bushes on 4th St." and "The Answer"

Richard Silberg "Redoubled," a review of Anne Enright's Madness, The Forgotten Waltz

Silberg, Richard: "Searching for Water," review of B.H. Fairchild's An Ordinary Life

Silberg, Richard: "Shaman," a review of Eugene Ruggles's Roads of Bread

Silberg, Richard: "Silence Was My Teacher," a review of Judith Tannenbaum and Spoon Jackson's By Heart: Poetry, Prison, and Two Lives

Silberg, Richard: "Small Miracles" a review of Gary Young's Even So: New and Selected Poems

Silberg, Richard: "The Catalyst of Community," review of Sarah Rosenthal's A Community Writing Itself: Conversations with Vanguard Writers of the Bay Area

Silberg, Richard: "The Chick: Homage for Tony Hoagland"

Silberg, Richard: "The Poet as Mensch," review of Alicia Suskin Ostriker's The Volcano and After: Selected and New Poems, 2002-2019

Silberg, Richard: "Walking Deep," a review of Ursula K. Le Guin's So Far So Good and Stanley Moss's Abandoned Poems

Silberg, Richard: Stand Up for the Earth with Poetry and Music: "Purposeful Togetherness" at Watershed 2016

Silberg, Richard: "Writing About Money," a review of Susan Briante's The Market Wonders

Silberg, Richard: "A Pinch of God" a review of The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog by Alicia Suskin Ostriker

Silverstein, Murray: "Here Went the Egret," "The Window," and "The Passing Hum"

Simon, John Oliver: "Firefly Under the Tongue: Three Mexican Poets in Translation," review of Firefly Under the Tongue: Selected Poems of Coral Bracho, translated by Forrest Gander; David Huerta's Before Saying Any of the Great Words: Selected Poems, translated by Mark Schafer; and Homero Aridjis' Solar Poems, translated by George McWhirter

Simon, John Oliver: "A Poet Drives a Truck: Remembering Lowell Levant"

Simon, John Oliver: "Poetas de Café: A Review," Adelaida Las Santas's Poetas de Café

Skratz, G.P.: "Fun for Seekers," a review of Ron Padgett's How to Be Perfect, An Illustrated Guide

Soldofsky, Alan: "On Notice," "Brace for Impact," and "Flare Up"

Soldofsky, Alan: "Sense of Place"

Staff: Galway Kinnell, 1927-2014

Staff: John Oliver Simon (1942-2018)

Staff: Steve Kowit, 1938-2015

Stever, Margo Taft: "My Mother is Dying" and "Strange Familiarities of Death"

Strongin, Lynn: A Selection from Ukrainian Blues

Su, Adrienne: "Tea Eggs"

Sullivan, A.P.: "The Darwinian Pole," review of Timothy Donnelly's The Cloud Corporation

Sullivan, A. P.: "The Idea of Chocolate," a review of Matthew Zapruder's Come On All You Ghosts

Sward, Robert: "Getting Out of the Way: A Conversation with Kate Gale"

Sweeney, Chad, ed.: "Listening In: The poetry of USC", poems by Mark Irwin, Stacy Gnall, Elizabeth Cantwell, Amaranth Borsuk, Brandon Som, Amy Newlove Schroeder, and Andrew Allport

Thompson, Lynne: "Modus Operandi," "Rum Love," and "E.K. Byrne Pens My Bio, scrawls:"

Thompson, Ruth: Three Poems

Thompson, Ruth: "Lunar Eclipse, June 2012"

Ungar, Lynn: "Pandemic"

Vinograd, Julia: "All the Night Stars"

Vinograd, Julia: "Dancing Time"

Waberi, Abdourahman: Poems from Mon nom est aube, translated by Nancy Naomi

Staff: "All Manner of Poets Stand Up for the Earth," 16th Annual Watershed Poetry Festival

Staff: "Poets & Writers Stand Up for the Earth!" 17th Annual Watershed Poetry Festival

Staff: "Stand Up for the Earth with Ecopoetry and Music" 18th Annual Watershed Poetry Festival

Staff: "Eco-Poetry and Community Come Together at Watershed" 20th Annual Watershed Poetry Festival

Weaver, Kathleen: "And Then There was a Revolution: An Interview with Nancy Morejón"

Weisner, Ken: "Shooting the Canon: An Interview with Marilyn Chin"

Wheeler, Lesley: "It's Just Emotions," a review of Ann Fisher-Wirth's Carta Marina: A Poem in Three Parts

Yaryan, Daniel: "Eclectic Jukebox," review of S.A. Griffin's Pandemic Soul Music

Yurkovsky, Alexandra: "Attentive Pleasures," review of Tim Kendall's The Art of Robert Frost

Zapruder, Matthew, et al.: "Where Parallel Lines Meet"

Zedan, Anthony: "A Crow in San Francisco," a review of Neeli Cherkovski's The Crow and I

Zeppa, Mary: Ann Menebroker (1936-2016)"

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