by Etel Adnan, from Night (Nightboat Press, 2016)

“Poem of a Forest of Clouds Sweeping By” by C. D. Wright, from Shallcross (Copper Canyon Press, 2016)

Tyehimba Jess, “What the Wind, Rain and Thunder Said to Tom,” from Olio (Wave Books, 2016)

“The Sound of Forgetting” by W. S. Merwin, from Garden Time (Copper Canyon, 2016)

Christopher Soto, from “[SOMEWHERE IN LOS ANGELES] This Poem Is Needed,” The American Poetry Review (45, 1)

“Finally a Consistent Poetics” by Matthew Freeman, from Everything Love Restored (Coffee Town Press, 2016)

“Wasps” by Pamela Garvey, from Seven Miles Deep (Five Oaks Press, 2017)

Lucie Brock-Broido, from “The American Security Against Foreign Enemies Act, The New Yorker (26 September 2016)