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Miracle Ice Cream

Miracle's truck comes down the little avenue,
Scott Joplin ragtime strewn behind it like pearls,
and, yes, you can feel happy
with one piece of your heart.

Take what's still given: in a room's rich shadow
a woman's breasts swinging lightly as she bends.
Early now the pearl of dusk dissolves.
Late, you sit weighing the evening news,
fast-food miracles, ghostly revolutions,
the rest of your heart.
Adrienne Rich
1995

Blue Girls

 
John Crowe Ransom

Aurelius & Furius, true comrades (11)

Aurelius & Furius, true comrades, 
whether Catullus penetrates to where in 
outermost India booms the eastern ocean's 
    wonderful thunder;

whether he stops with Arabs or Hyrcani, 
Parthian bowmen or nomadic Sagae; 
or goes to Egypt, which the Nile so richly 
    dyes, overflowing;

even if he should scale the lofty Alps, or 
summon to mind the mightiness of Caesar 
viewing the Gallic Rhine, the dreadful Britons 
    at the world's far end-- 

you're both prepared to share in my adventures, 
and any others which the gods may send me.
Back to my girl then, carry her this bitter 
 
Gaius Valerius Catullus
1989

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  • Weijia Pan
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    Weijia Pan

    Weijia Pan is a Chinese poet and the author of the poetry collection Motherlands (Milkweed Editions, 2024), selected by Louise Glück for the 2023 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. He was also the recipient of the 2025 Levis Reading Prize and the 2025 Ninth Letter Literary Award for Poetry. A Wallace Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, Pan lives in San Mateo, California.
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  • Avia Tadmor
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    Avia Tadmor

    Avia Tadmor is a poet and the author of Song in Tammuz (Tupelo Press, 2026), winner of the International Berkshire Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from Yaddo, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, Poets & Writers, Vermont Studio Center, and other organizations. A clinical assistant professor at New York University, Tadmor lives in Manhattan, New York, on Lenape land.
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  • Ameen Animashaun
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    Ameen Animashaun

    Ameen Animashaun is a poet. His work has appeared in Shenandoah, Rattle Magazine, Brink, and Salamander Magazine, among other publications. Animashaun is the winner of the 2025 Evaristo Prize for African Poetry, the 2024 Academy of American Poets A. E. Claeyssens Jr. Poetry Prize, and a recipient of the 2024 Starshine and Clay Fellowship. He lives in St. Louis.
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Title Author Type Year
Borderland Apocrypha Anthony Cody Poetry Book 2020
Year of the Dog Deborah Paredez Poetry Book 2020
DMZ Colony Don Mee Choi 2020
The Malevolent Volume Justin Phillip Reed Poetry Book 2020
Indigo Ellen Bass Poetry Book 2020

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