Blackbird
An online journal of literature and the arts
Ena Selimović (translator)
Zlatan Nezirović
FATHER
Brenna Womer
Only
Kasumi Parker
Look and See
AJ White
Follower
I Have Sent the Future on Ahead to Be Dealt With
Inventory
Not-Conversation with My Former Self
Brian Komei Dempster
Honey
Wood
Cameron McGill
AFTER YVES TAKES ME HOME FROM THE DOCTOR, I LIE IN THE DARK
Chelsea B. DesAutels
Attunement
Corey Zeller
A Good Way to Fall in Love is to Turn Off the Headlights and Drive Very Fast Down Dark Roads
Debmalya Bandyopadhyay
Prayer
Dennis Hinrichsen
Dementia Lyric with Miles Davis and a Gamelan
Ian Cappelli
Three Polystichs
Julia Levine
Laws of War
Sébastian Luc Butler
ORIGIN
Malcolm Greenlee Farley (translator)
Robert Marteau
“I recall that things were pretty much”
“The willow herb at the wood’s edge clothes itself”
Peter Filkins
Willy
Rasaq Malik Gbolahan
Elegy
Weijia Pan
A Poet’s Guide to Espionage
Fable
Monologue on an Anonymous Alley, 1998
Poética Histórica: Or, How to Leave My Country a Voicemail
Spring View
Gretchen Scherer
Gallery
The Space Says Yes To Me
It is the Echo: Poetic Spiritualism in Charles Wright’s Appalachian Book of the Dead & in Late Twentieth & Early Twenty-First Century Poetry
Hana Rehman
Review: Anne de Marcken’s It Lasts Forever and Then It’s Over
Matt Schroeder
Review: Weijia Pan’s Motherlands
Paul Lomio
Review: Light Me Down: The New & Collected Poems of Jean Valentine
Interview with Kwame Dawes