日期：2011-02-15 Song Alicia Ostriker Some claim the origin of song was a war cry（政治口号） some say it was a rhyme telling the farmers when to plant and reap dont they know the first song was a lullaby（摇篮曲） pulled from a mothers sleep said the old woman A si... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-15 April Alicia Ostriker The optimists among us taking heart（振作，鼓起勇气） because it is spring skip along attending their meetings signing their e-mail petitions（请愿） marching with their satiric（讽刺的） signs singing their we shall overcome s... 阅读全文>>

日期：2011-02-15 Bone Fires Mark Jarman The manikin（侏儒，时装模特） 's head is filled with water so When the bonfire（篝火，营火） brings it to a boil It explodes and shoots up into the air Not enough water to put out the fire Which will burn on, consuming the man... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-17 I held back so much afraid to show my deepest feelings your gentleness and honesty encouraged me to open up and I started a trust in you that I never had with anyone else Once I started to express my feelings I realized that this is the only way to... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-08 Visiting Stanley Kunitz Michael Longley I have flown the Atlantic To reach you in your chair. Cuddling（拥抱） up, we talk about Flowers, important things, And hold hands to celebrate Spring gentian's heavenly (Strictly speaking) blue. You grow anem... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-12-08 Landscape with Figures Partially Erased D. A. Powell First, it's just the faces disappearing. Because, deflected（偏离的） , as the faces long have been, with their hunched（缩成一团的） trunks（中继线，运动短裤） and mercilessly（残忍地） twisted n... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-26 The Next Apartment D. Nurkse I lived beside the lovers on that linden-shaded industrial block between Linwood and Crescent. How they argued! Once he pounded his head against the lintel（门楣） in a rain of plaster. Once I watched her walk into the r... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-26 Jonathan, O Jonathan Margaret Avison The spokes of sun have pronged and spun: a bowling barrowpaddle-wheelor rein（缰绳，驾驭） held taut（拉紧的，整洁的） . Careening early this morning shod hooves flaked the loose tiles. Sky opened. Horning farnes... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-08 Some Years in the History of Love Poetry Michelle Boisseau Two streams careened（倾斜） from mountains aimlessly driven, like all lovers, searching basin and rill（小溪，小河） , hurrying but hardly giving the other a thought. You forded deserts whe... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-11-08 Fathers and Sons Patrick Lane I will walk across the long slow grass where the desert sun waits among the stones and reach down into the heavy earth and lift your body back into the day. My hands will swim down through the clay like white fish who w... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-10-11 Be Here First Ellen Dor Watson I don't know my trees but I know my trees. Their angling for（谋取） what has spurned（唾弃，冷落） them; their spitting and drooling（流口水） , the battered（破旧的，磨损的） crocuses（番红花） at their feet. We shar... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-26 Bellaghy Winner of the 2009-2010 AWP Intro Journals Project, selected by Lynn Powell Stepping off the bus from Magherafelt, I feel my ass pinched（压紧，痛苦） by a boy not yet out of junior school and, deposited all alone, am greeted by a quartet（... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-26 Horse and Rider Melissa Range Sing unto（到，直到） the Lord a drift of a song, a song that goes before the Law: make of your voice a shaft of flame shifting into cloud and back again, a rift in a wave, a crack（裂缝） in a wheel, a road in the mids... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-26 What They Saw Li-Hong Lei village, China, 2001 Three men out my window drag the earth through hoes, then bend to slit new seed rows. Behind them, an orchard（果园） droops（下垂，消沉） with almonds（杏仁） trees pregnant, the earth conceiving（怀孕... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-26 Returning David Wagoner At the brim（边缘） of a deep pool before the rapids（急流，湍流） below that stone stairway（阶梯，楼梯） for days overhead the under-sheen of the other world turning darker lighter again still holding the first taste of rai... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-26 Landscape with Grief Train David Young Such a huge locomotive（机车，火车头） , the grief train, panting（喘气的） , ugly, shiny, and black, but it has many cars to pull and a very long distance to travel. Miraculously（奇迹般地） , it needs no fuel... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-08 A Mayfly Paul Muldoon A mayfly（蜉蝣） taking off from a spike of mullein（毛蕊花属） would blunder into Deichtine's mouth to become Cuchulainn, Cuchulainn who had it within him to steer clear of a battlefield on the shaft of his own spear, his own... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-09-08 A Hare at Aldergrove Paul Muldoon A hare standing up at last on his own two feet in the blasted（枯萎的，被害的） grass by the runway may trace his lineage（血统，家系） to the great assembly of hares that, in the face of what might well have looked... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-08-26 The nurse has made up the bed so crisply（清楚地，易碎地） . Tucked the corners' rote origami（折纸手工） so soundly into the aluminum（铝） frame. Your lips glisten, moistened（弄湿） with a square of sponge（海绵） . I hold your handweightless thi... 阅读全文>>

日期：2010-07-13 Little League Coaching Pitchers When my only pitcher（投手，大水罐） went wild against the league's worst team, I knew we had a cushion, hell, ten runs at least. Time for a life-lesson. Like Zeus I towered over him on the mound and poured the positi... 阅读全文>>