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)

by Michael Palmer, “The Laughter of the Sphinx,” from The Laughter of the Sphinx (New Directions, 2016)

“Ignatz Domesticus” by Monica Youn, from Ignatz (Four Way Books, 2010)