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Poetry Poster #6: Claudia Emerson

August 3, 2012

This week’s poem is by Claudia Emerson: "Greengrocer." It appeared in our Spring 2012 issue on the state of American Poetry. To download a high-resolution PDF of this image, click here.

Poetry Poster #5: Yehoshua November

July 27, 2012

This week’s poem is by Yehoshua November: "You Stood Beneath a Streetlight Waving Goodbye." It appeared in our Spring 2012 issue on the state of American Poetry. To download a high-resolution PDF of this image, click here. [...]

Poetry Poster #4: Heather Dubrow

July 20, 2012

This week’s poem is by Heather Dubrow, "Geranium." It appeared in our Spring 2012 issue on the state of American Poetry. To download a high-resolution PDF of this image, click here. [...]

Poetry Poster #3: Rachel Zucker

July 13, 2012

This week’s poem is by Rachel Zucker, "Two Kinds of Suffering." It appeared in our Spring 2012 issue on the state of American Poetry. To download a high-resolution PDF of this image, click here. [...]

Poetry Poster #2: Jeredith Merrin

July 6, 2012

This week's poem is by Jeredith Merrin: [Today I went]. This poem is from a sequence of 10-line poems in response to Merrin's daughter's cancer diagnosis. Three poems from Merrin's series appeared in the Spring 2012 issue of VQR: •  [Now, her [...]

Poetry Poster #1: David Lehman

June 29, 2012

Every Friday, we'll be offering up a poem in mini-poster form that's appeared in an issue of VQR. We hope you'll share, display, and enjoy. Our very first poem, from the Spring 2012 issue, is by David Lehman: "Poem in the Manner of the 1960s."  [...]

Walt Whitman, Denim Salesman

November 30, 2009

Levi’s needed to convince those who are about to jump the designer ship to buy their cheaper version. Their go-to was a man from the first generation of Brooklyn hipsters.

In Verse

September 8, 2009

Announcing a new poetry project in the spirit of the Federal Writers' Project.

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