Four Corners | Nate Maye

I have hesitated to post a personal joy amid so much tragedy and horror—but that said: I am thrilled and honored to have a poem, “Chopin In Palma,” in The Best American Poetry 2023. So my deep-felt thanks and gratitude to series editor, David Lehman, and this year’s guest editor, Elaine Equi. Oddly, when I…

You of the golden hair beautiful sometimes sour expression lead me past the land mines of the heart smile your half smile upon me. The post Golden Hair | Tempest Brew appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online

Marianne von Werefkin, Herbst (Schule), “Autumn (School)”, 1907. Photo Courtesy Wikipedia It’s Glinda, Good Witch of the West, who says the solution to a problem is as simple as closing your eyes and clicking together your personal pair of ruby slippers. I took Glynda at her word almost every day of my army career, hoping…

  BLACK-AND-WHITE PHOTOGRAPH OF A RELATIVE   Edges cut strange shadows this time of day. As sunlight strays, roof shade falls short on the porch, its doorway a slate-black slab behind a crouched man. Contrast dominates the scene, these dual grains of age a resistance to one another. Trees abate themselves in ashen air, their…

CHARLES BERNSTEIN’S GPS  “Recalculating” by Charles Bernstein (The University of Chicago Press, 2013) When they are not being performed, Charles Bernstein’s poems are on the edge of performance. But they don’t start that way. They start as notes from a mind that is never still, fueled by extensive reading, a constant regimen like a diet…

Noah, you lived in the wrong time, died too quickly, looked at your world with different eyes, taught me the value of getting to know a person, even if I disagreed with them. The post Noah | Alan Inman appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online