Brett Hanley

Herculaneum No one is bored, just barbaric Anymore. Ash admixed with rain, which cooled The air. How much longer will this beauty Of yours last? As if even the idea of the city Has been lost for twenty centuries. Don't quail like this; go Gracefully instead. Eros enters The room like a lesser god stopped still In the middle of a bath of oil & umbrage in The exquisite hour. No one is Exquisite anymore. The river is so small now It will be hard to drown In it. And still this world's a pretty one. What world.

Lucie Brock-Broido

Swirl & Vortex, Collected Poems of Larry Levis, published by Graywolf Press, February 2026.

Swirl & Vortex, the collected poems of Larry Levis, will be published next February by @graywolfpress.bsky.social. So pleased that the full breadth of Levis’s immensely beautiful, troubled and troubling lyric poetry will be available to read.

My life was the size of my life.

—Jane Hirshfield

Alice Notley "I've meant to tell you many things about my life" I've meant to tell you many things about my life, & every time the moment has conquered me. I'm strangely unhappy because the pattern of my life is complicated, because my nature is hopelessly complicated; & out of this, to my sorrow, pain to you must grow. The centre of me is always & eternally a terrible pain— a curious wild pain—a searching beyond what the world contains, something transfigured & infinite-I don't find it, I don't think it is to be found. It's like passionate love for a ghost. At times it fills me with rage, at times with wild despair, It's the source of gentleness & cruelty & work.

A favourite poem by Alice Notley.

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Our verses (and Mary Ruefle) are once again calling us back to ourselves.

“I asked ChatGPT” well I asked the three Fates and the one with the scissors got very agitated when I told her you were using your one precious life thread talking to that cursed thing

I love this!

Taking it to the interwebs

I’ve experienced this! I have three copies.

I’m so happy to have a couple of poems in the absolutely stunning new issue of @shopoetryjournal.bsky.social, including this one, which took far longer than any of my poems to find its ending (three years)! Thanks so much to the Editors for taking such care with the work in this journal.

Front Cover, Shō No. 6

List of 40 poetry contributors: Saida Agostini Jubril Badmus Jo Bear Tianna Bratcher William Ward Butler Allisa Cherry Ari B. Cofer Erica Dawson T. De Los Reyes Rosemarie Dombrowski Saddiq Dzukogi Nathan Erwin M.J. Gomez Ranudi Gunawardena Brett Hanley Chris Hoshnic Mickie Kennedy Susanna Lang Kabel Mishka Ligot Alejandro Lucero Maja Lukic Nick Martino Becka Mara McKay Jackson D. Moorman Jarrett Moseley Jae Nichelle Hannah Faith Notess Robert Okaji Shawnte Orion Alison Pelegrin Ciaran Pierce Nicholas Pierce Samodh Porawagamage Meg Reynolds Wesley Rothman Katy Scarlett Amanda Maret Scharf Hannah Tennant-Moore Alyssandra Tobin Bunkong Tuon

Saturated high red and blue painting featuring a young woman of South Asian descent

Here’s the cover for our upcoming issue, Shō No. 6 (Winter 2024/25), which features 57 poems by 40 poets. Cover art: “In Gilded Walls” by Tanya Rastogi. Preorder your copy at: bit.ly/shono6 – orders ship in January.

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Always returning to this Solmaz Sharif poem, especially now.