After Han-Shan's Poem #3 Lovely, the road to Cold Mountain where there is no sign of traffic, where valleys blur and streams twist and tangle, where ridge up...

The Answering Ice For Michael Castro (1945-2018) December he answers the phone. He hears blackbirds meandering their sentences across the sky. He hears leav...

Cardinals The winter god’s thumb smudges blood stains into the skeletal trees, gives them wings and the gift of sound and we call them princes of the church....

OPENS MAY 15, 2020! Submission Guidelines The eighteenth annual Dogfish Head Poetry Prize for the winning book-length manuscript by a poet residing in the Mi...

Rookery At dusk, one by one, great blue herons come from all directions, swoop to the top of the tall pine across the river, wings spread, balancing awkwardl...

Bob Dylan is America Bob Dylan is America. Carl Sandburg is America. Allen Ginsberg and Langston Hughes, Shel Silverstein and Willie Nelson Are America. Just...

Cast of Characters Sarah: 50s, middle-class background, college-educated, professional SCENE Anywhere in the United States or Canada TIME The present SARA...

Finally finished “The Origin of the Work of Art,” which is not an essay but a confrontation: you have to be engaged with it at all times to see what is being...

"Translation is a Mode=Translation as an Anti-neocolonial Mode" By Don Mee Choi From Ugly Duckling Presse By Stephen Scott Whitaker Don Mee Choi’s new pamphl...

for Beth Copeland Yesterday, warring fog and sun unmoored her mountain. She has come to expect this dodge-and-feint of her mountain. One day grandmother, ano...

Picture Window It being her job, she made her son put on his scarf under his winter coat before he sent himself to his job, into the March wind to a sky fill...

MICHAEL CHANG (they/them) poets to feel alive. Their writing has been published or is forthcoming in The Minnesota Review, Yellow Medicine R

A Leading, 2 From blinding sunlight, we are rendered with love, like a sky painted with summoning music, generations of waves from uncommon places, brightene...

All She Ever Wanted Was the light of astonishment— watching a white narcissus bulb secured in a pot on her old pine desk. It bloomed like Venus rising from t...

Before Mother Married Father Scrambled eggs, bacon and toast, coffee steaming between them in the Red Robin Diner in Johnson City New York, she listens to he...

Deviant After dropping acid, Danny danced all night by himself in the corner of the dining room. He was there when we went to bed and when we woke. “I unders...