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The letters on the neon sign go out, one a year, or are not repaired ^[private]

By Ed Skoog

Summer 2018

shortened are the number of times
I will speak to my father alive
the days I can just goof off and no one cares

Slender the residence of immensity ^[private]

By Ed Skoog

Summer 2018

It frogs in from the front and fails.
Concentric broadcasts summit the senses
and slide the faculty a sleeping pill.

To wear a vigorous shirt. At See-See Coffee ^[private]

By Ed Skoog

Summer 2018

in the bathroom, a sticker on the hot-water tank
says, It only takes one or two

VQR Online

Poetry Poster #12: David Mason

By David Mason

April 15, 2013

This month's poster features a poem from David Mason. It appeared in our Spring 2013 issue on The Business of Literature. To download a high-resolution PDF of this image, click here. [...]

Poetry Poster #11: Victoria Chang

By Victoria Chang

February 22, 2013

This month's poster features a poem from Victoria Chang. It appeared in our Fall 2012 issue on The Female Conscience. To download a high-resolution PDF of this image, click here. [...]

Poetry Poster #10: William Baer

By William Baer

January 25, 2013

"Tracking Shots," from our Winter 2013 issue on Classic Hollywood.

American poetry

Photograph by Fred Viebahn

An Interview With Rita Dove

By Claire Schwartz

"The Poet Edgar Allan Poe: Alien Angel," By Jerome McGann

Defending 'The Jingle Man'

By John S. Sledge

The Collected Poems of W. S. Merwin (two-volume set). Edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2013. 1531p. HB, $75.

W. S. Merwin, the Eternal Apprentice

By John Freeman