• Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us

    Carl Phillips

    Spring 2019

    A water-meadow is not a flood-meadow.

    A working meadow’s not a fallow field.

    Carl Phillips’s new book, Pale Colors in a Tall Field, will be out from Farrar, Straus & Giroux in 2020. Sibling Rivalry Press will publish his chapbook, Star Map with Action Figures, this fall.

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    Seven Poems from the Latin of John Owen

    Charles Martin

    Now when the Lion, sated, leaves the feast,
    The Jackal and Hyena come a-gnawin';
    With such apology, O Regal Beast,
    I offer these translations of John Owen.

    Get Lost: a Love Rant

    Heather McHugh

    During his travels in the late 1740s, the botanist and zoologist Carl Linnaeus had the opportunity to closely examine several monkeys. In comparing their anatomies to those of men, he found no differences except for speech. So man and monkey both wound up under the same category in his taxonomic scheme: Anthropomorpha.

    Blurry Finally in Too Soon Each of Us

    Carl Phillips

    A water-meadow is not a flood-meadow.

    A working meadow’s not a fallow field.

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