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Two Pit Bulls & a Bone

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

It is difficult to bark while

the teeth are clinched

so it goes, deep growl

after mean-ass growl

p r i d e

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

Give me memories as

slow to leave as snails.

In foreign and perhaps

fragile years I’ll still be able

Fuh Da Summa

By A. H. Jerriod Avant

I’m docked at a lake that

the people don’t attend.

Machete on my hip to

make a devil cough up

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