‘Victus’ and Other Poetry by Luke Hahn
Victus a response to William Ernest Henley’s poem “Invictus,” from which the first two lines of the final stanza are...
Read moreDetailsVictus a response to William Ernest Henley’s poem “Invictus,” from which the first two lines of the final stanza are...
Read moreDetailsA Letter to Sir Grammar Dear Sir Grammar: With all kindness and courtesy, may I request, A new package...
Read moreDetailsYears ago—I still remember: final Thursday in November, I was in my kitchen cooking food to rival feasts of...
Read moreDetailstranslation by Anna Leader I do not know what it might bode That I should be so sad, A...
Read moreDetailsPraise for Fall You float in on a late September breeze with still-warm days and mild, cool nights in tow....
Read moreDetailsThank You Sonnet This thanking you in sonnet form might seem Somewhat unusual, but I think it best, Simply to...
Read moreDetailsForgotten The grass has overgrown the weathered stone Since they first placed his body in the ground, And visitors...
Read moreDetailsMama My mama took two drinks a year; A shot glass down the gullet— Yet hated bars and abhorred beer....
Read moreDetailsEt In Arcadia Ego Oh, that's it, Keko. Pass through. Go ahead. Just walk across my books without a...
Read moreDetailsWhat song shall I sing for a nation divided By politics, race, economics, and power? By what sweet refrain...
Read moreDetailsThe above photographs were taken and submitted by New York City poet Joe Tessitore. We invite readers to pick one...
Read moreDetailsTranslator's note: The following consists of three poems by Jehan (or Jean) Froissart (c.1335–c.1410), translated not very literally but as...
Read moreDetailsSong at Sunset The sun sets ‘neath the mountain top: __A golden orb that blinks And just for seconds lights...
Read moreDetailsRequiem for the U.N. 73 years—countless billions of dollars— And here we are today... Behold the statesmen smartly dressed Assembled...
Read moreDetailsTo You, My Wife a villanelle To you, my wife, my love I declare, My joy and gain, a...
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Read moreDetailsGrapes Peel me a grape But remove the seed I love the flesh But have no need Of hard encounters...
Read moreDetailsEternity in Our Hearts after Ecclesiastes 3 I contemplated all these matters from beneath the heaven, seeing things the...
Read moreDetailsI. Return to Rome Turn, turn, sing Seeger and the Shakers, turn Till one day all comes right—but is...
Read moreDetailsMy Daughter Sees a Starling on the Lawn I thought to tell you how the bird was called, What...
Read moreDetailsWho is that smiling cherub whose huge wings, Open, extended, like a swan in flight, Lifts him above the angels...
Read moreDetailsA Moving Experience We’re the Stooges Three—your moving company. If it ain’t broke before we tote, it soon enough will...
Read moreDetailsIn Frenchman bay, near Otter Point, the sea Against an ancient rock comes crashing down. This grey-clad cliff protrudes...
Read moreDetailsVon Sacher-Masoch’s Rebuttal to the Golden Rule If a brutal bash can bring one pleasure, one man’s lash is another...
Read moreDetailsThe New Year The fields stretch out, bare, icy: __Wide, blank, yet-unetched slates, Tabulae rasae, waiting __The chisel of the...
Read moreDetailsI am the raging tempest tossed upon the fretful sea; you are the calm and quiet gale that steadies...
Read moreDetailsThe sun sinks deep into the hill Behind the town that perches still. An amber fog prowls through the...
Read moreDetailsMoth, Angel of the Night Emerging from a rich cocoon, you shed off your old husk– with legs outstretched...
Read moreDetailsSurveillance, Twenty Twenty I never thought I'd live to see my TV looking back at me! One Nation,...
Read moreDetailsIt seems the art world all but missed the dart Hurled ‘cross the continent when Hassel Smith Called Jackson...
Read moreDetailsThere's a legend that's told in the neighborhood pubs, In the smoke-filled gin joints and the posh country clubs,...
Read moreDetailsHark now to the yuppies’ anthem, And the lifestyle that it preaches— How we all reside on the chic...
Read moreDetailsCumæan Below, beyond the tiles now cave’d down, Up from the rubbled earth arose a sound Shrieking in a pitch...
Read moreDetailsBees Are Spectacular When people talk of “bees” it well could mean Two things: the sum of separate insects or...
Read moreDetailsOn the occasion of New Year's Day 2020, two poems by Damian Robin, a writer and editor living in the...
Read moreDetails‘Tis late now in the balmy eve, without the slightest stir, When lighter than a hot balloon cuts through...
Read moreDetailsby Eric Awesud Ble Adolfo Martinez, a man who hails from Ames, Iowa, was sentenced sixteen jailed-years for the...
Read moreDetailsThree Hundred Spartans In twilight’s ash three hundred stars await As blue-black thunder roars with battle drums, Three hundred...
Read moreDetailsOne Last Candle The angry storm approaches in the night, Its curdling howl is heard for miles around. The trees...
Read moreDetails. A play in one act based on the true story of Li Zhenjun. Play by Evan Mantyk. Characters Narrator...
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