Crescent Moon

"While The Child Sleeps, Sonya Undresses" (Ilya Kaminsky)

“Our Story” (William Stafford)

"Persimmons" & “This Room and Everything in It” (Li-Young Lee)

“I Cannot Be Known” (Paul Eluard)

"Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition" (Wislawa Szymborska)

"Song of Solomon"

“The Hand Has Twenty-Seven Bones” (Natalie Diaz)

“Vermeer” (Tomas Transtromer)

“The Afternoon Sun” (C.P. Cavafy)

"A Brief for the Defense" & “What is There to Say?” (Jack Gilbert)

“Who Am I?” (Nazik al Mala’ika)

"Monet Refuses the Operation" (Lisel Mueller)

“The Author Writes the First Draft of His Wedding Vows” (Hanif Willis-Abdurraquib)

“Great Things Have Happened” (Alden Nowlan)

“Love Poem with Apologies for My Appearance” & “The Leash” (Ada Limón)

“Self-Portrait at 28″ (David Berman)

"Cloves" (Saadi Youssef)

"Transformations of the Lover" (Adonis)

“Asking the Way” (Ko Un)

"Postscript" & “St. Kevin and The Blackbird” & “The Rain-Stick” (Seamus Heaney)

“The Country Without a Post Office” (Agha Shahid Ali)

“[Sonnet 102]” (William Shakespeare)

"Stolen Moments" (Kim Addonizio)

“After All This” (Richard Jackson)

"And They Were Both Right" (Kapka Kassabova)

“Rain Song” (Badr Shakir al-Sayyab)

“The Road” (Kim Sowul)

“Touch” & “Before the Beginning” & “As One Listens to the Rain” (Octavio Paz)

"Children Who Love Each Other" (Jacques Prevert)

"Try to Praise the Mutilated World" & "Flame" (Adam Zagajewski)

“Prayer for the Mutilated World” (sam sax)

"Song of Myself" & “The Sleepers” (Walt Whitman)

“Love Poem” (Denise Levertov)

“Inside the Apple” (Yehuda Amichai)

"French Novel" (Richie Hofmann)

“My Gift to You” (Roberto Bolaño)

“The Flea” (John Donne)

"The Cinnamon Peeler" (Michael Ondaatje)

“The Stare” (Sujata Bhatt)

"[again and again even though we know love’s landscape]" (Rilke)

"These Poems" (June Jordan)

e.e. cummings, selected lines from “i spoke to thee” (from Tulips), Complete Poems of E.E. Cummings: 1904-1962

“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.”

- Sally Rooney