A poem whose primary accomplishment is the makeup-answer framing—the piece is structurally a delayed reply to a Wednesday conversation that the speaker could not answer in the moment. The catalog...
A short tropical innuendo poem whose primary accomplishment is the controlled double-reading of botanical and bodily vocabulary. The piece operates in the catalog’s lighter register, and it earns its place...
A poem whose primary accomplishment is the reclamation of a contemporary slur through its literal acceptance. The catalog has rarely engaged with current political vocabulary; the engagement here is brief,...
A poem whose structural ambition is to deliver a wedding-vow question wrapped in a meditation on gendered self-presentation, and whose closing inversion redeems the masculine catalog by turning it into...
A short poem whose discipline is its method and whose closing question is one of the most precise small acts of negotiation in the recent catalog. The piece does what...
A short poem whose brevity is its method and whose closing triplet is one of the most accomplished single lines in the recent catalog. The piece does what the strongest...
A poem whose method is fevered playfulness and whose primary accomplishment is the closing reassignment of the humble vessel from bathroom porcelain to the speaker himself. The piece is the...
A short admiring poem whose primary accomplishment is the closing stanza about the writer’s habit, with the physical-praise body of the piece functioning as the occasion for that closing. The...
A short tribute poem that does something the catalog has rarely permitted itself: it names the Muse. Across hundreds of poems, she has been the woman in the introduction, the...
A poem whose brevity is its method. Seven lines, three stanzas, one aphorism, one address, one affirmation. The piece does what aphoristic poetry rarely achieves: it earns its compression by...
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