August, 2026
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Record Player – Adrian Matejka
It’s never our finest hour in America but right now,
most things at the ledges of my life are like the sad
shuffling at the edge of an LP. This one time, I forgot
to pick up the tonearm & heard polyvinyl lamentations
until Thursday when I finally realized the sounds were from
my speakers & not one of my own haunted creation.
I would have laughed, but it was war time yet again:
more air strikes crumbling schools, more drone opportunities
& misplaced homilies. You got to be kidding me.
Polished tanks cresting possibility’s hill for another,
unrequited salvo. All the mystifying UFOs & split
infinities in the record’s imaginary are in the past as it
kept playing its static goodbyes: little hiccupping pleas
until somebody, finally, flipped off the infernal machine.
Poetry
- A Dog Has Died – Pablo Neruda
- A Moment of Silence – Emmanuel Ortiz
- A Quiet Life – Baron Wormser
- A Reminder – found and slightly edited from the webpage of a Methodist Church
- A Wreath to the Fish – Nancy Willard
- Acceptance Speech After Setting the World Record in Goosebumps – Andrea Gibson
- Against the Odds – David Lerner
- Alone – Jack Gilbert
- Another Planet – Dunya Mikhail
- Be Kind, Rewind – Neil Silberblatt
- Big Conversation – Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer
- Black Momma Math – Kimberly Jae
- Boplicity or Jimmy Throws a Houseparty for Huey Newton – Daniel B. Summerhill
- Capitol Air – Allen Ginsburg
- Combat Primer – Charles Bukowski
- Crow – Doug Anderson
- Crow Blacker Than Ever – Ted Hughes
- Dear white people – Makhadzi Mudzweda
- Detour – Ruth Feldman
- Dismiss Whatever Insults Your Own Soul – Walt Whitman
- Do You Know What Today Is? – Danez Smith
- Don’t fall in love with a woman who reads – Martha Rivera-Garrido
- Enriching the Earth – Wendell Berry
- Failing and Flying – Jack Gilbert
- Feel Mo – Michael Korson
- Footprints In Your Heart – Eleanor Roosvelt
- For Calling the Spirit Back from Wandering the Earth in Its Human Feet – Joy Harjo
- Forgetfulness – Billy Collins
- Gate A-4 – Naomi Shihab Nye
- Georgics: Book I excerpt – Virgil
- God – Brian Doyle
- God Says Yes To Me – Kaylin Haught
- Growing Old – Emma Rosenberg
- Half-light – Dāshaun Washington
- Homesick: A Plea for Our Planet – Andrea Gibson
- How Poetry Comes to Me – Ruah Bull
- How She Heard It – Todd Davis
- How to Slay a Dragon – Rebecca Dupas
- I Talked to a Lady – Tanya Howden
- I think every human being – Matt Moberg
- I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free -Billy Taylor and Dick Dallas
- If You Knew – Ellen Bass
- Instructions before visiting Earth – James McCrae
- It Happens All the Time – Hafez
- KINDNESS – Naomi Shihab Nye
- Love at First Sight – Wisława Szymborska
- Love is Not All – Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Men – Maya Angelou
- Millennium Blessing – Stephen Levine
- my brain and heart divorced ~ john roedel
- My Country – Tony Hoagland
- Ode to Those Who Block Tunnels and Bridges – Sam Sax
- Old Man Eating Alone – Billy Collins
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek excerpt – Annie Dillard
- Prayer – Marie Howe
- Psalm for the Slightly Tilted – Ilya Kaminsky
- Record Player – Adrian Matejka
- Relax – Ellen Bass
- Shoveling Snow With Buddha – Billy Collins
- Sleeping in the Forest – Mary Oliver
- Small Stack of Books – Blake Nelson
- Soliloquy of the Solipsist – Sylvia Plath
- Spider – Andrea Gibson
- spring – Safia Elhillo
- Squirrel – Lynn Ungar
- Tangled Up In Blue – Bob Dylan
- Telephone Booth (number 905 1/2) – Pedro Pietri
- The Best Poem Ever – Brian Doyle
- The Caveman’s Lament – Brian Bilston
- The Four Noble Truths – Jake Onami Agnew
- The History of One Tough Motherfucker – Charles Bukowski
- The Holy Longing – J.W. von Goethe
- The Layers – Stanley Kunitz
- The Long Boat – Stanley Kunitz
- The Lost Hotels of Paris – Jack Gilbert
- The Moon is Full Tonight – Billy Collins
- The Shyness – Sharon Olds
- The Silence of the Stars – David Wagoner
- The U.N. Headquarters in the High Commissioner’s House in Jerusalem – Yehuda Amichai
- The War Works Hard – Dunya Mikhail
- The World is Both Burning and Blooming – Karen Salmansohn
- To Diego with Love – Frida Kalko
- Tryst with Death – Gina Puorro
- Two poems – Wendell Berry
- Two poems – Yehuda Amichai
- Two-bloods – Rolando Kattan
- Wage Peace – Mary Oliver
- War Primer – Bertholt Brecht
- We are the Trees – J Raymond
- We will meet, don’t be in such a rush – Hala alShrouf
- What I Learned From Listening to a Stutterer – Ellen Zorin
- What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why – Edna St. Vincent Millay
- Who Says Words With My Mouth? – Jalal ad-Din Rumi
