From “After Talk”
You touched my chest with your fingertips
as I lay next to you trying to sleep.
“Try to rest,” you said, by which you meant,
Gird your loins, my love, and prepare your heart,
for tomorrow I may leave you.
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February Thaw
Outside, crowded maple trees
soften themselves and glisten.
Weeping, they unroll their leaves.
Poems in the Rooms of the Dying
On the subject of serial killers, poet Ruth Danon writes that they “leave notes, write in code.” They “grow increasingly impatient.”
“They hate the dark,” she muses. “They want to be found.”
So do poets. And Danon’s latest collection, Word Has It (Nirala Publications, 2018) reads like a series of notes dispatched from the brink of an apocalypse. Birds fall from the sky. Red-eyed people weep. There is blood. Dark, ominous omens of all shapes and sizes rain down.
Our New Issue Is Here!
The 2011 Spring/Summer issue is here, and it's big -- bursting with an eclectic mash-up of poetry, translation, fiction, nonfiction, book reviews, and art. Contributors include Sherman Alexie, Anselm Berrigan, Marge Piercy, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilya Kaminsky, Josip...
GMR Contributor Selected for Best American Poetry 2011!
Congratulations to Olena Kalytiak Davis, whose three sonnets "Sonnet (division)," "Sonnet (motion)," and "Sonnet (silenced)" (from GMR 23.2) have been selected by Kevin Young for inclusion in the 2011 edition of Best American Poetry. Also, check out Olena's new...
GMR Contributor Nancy Mitchell Awarded Pushcart Prize! http://bit.ly/jRtyFS
GMR Contributor Nancy Mitchell Awarded Pushcart Prize! http://bit.ly/jRtyFS
Pushcart Prize Awarded to GMR Contributor Nancy Mitchell!
Congratulations to poet Nancy Mitchell, who was awarded a Pushcart Prize for her poem "Grace Notes," appearing in Green Mountains Review Vol. XXIII, no. 2. Mitchell’s poem will be included in The Pushcart Prize XXVI: Best of the Small Presses (2012). Mitchell teaches...
New journal site is almost ready for official launch – stay tuned!
New journal site is almost ready for official launch - stay tuned!
Submissions now being accepted online at http://greenmountainsreview.com/submissions/.
Submissions now being accepted online at http://greenmountainsreview.com/submissions/.
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