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Magnolia Cone Madrigal ^[private]

By Lisa Russ Spaar

Fall 2019

Primitive angiosperm, genus
prior even to bees,

You Better Think Madrigal ^[private]

By Lisa Russ Spaar

Fall 2019

“Think,” Aretha Franklin and Ted White, Aretha Now, Atlantic, 1968

I Gave My Love a Story ^[private]

By Tess Taylor

Fall 2019

Now it is night again, child on my chest.
I croon & my song drifts you toward rest.

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