Poems October 16, 2023 Issue “Childhood” “The same cold blue all day in the sky.” By David Baker October 9, 2023 October 16, 2023 Issue “Springfield” “Get a room, the dude in the blue Camaro yells.” By Andrea Cohen October 9, 2023 October 9, 2023 Issue “Hares” “I am seen, I bet, / more often than I see.” By A. E. Stallings October 2, 2023 October 9, 2023 Issue “After My Father’s Cremation” “Outside now his ashes / are blown by the wind.” By Pablo Medina October 2, 2023 October 2, 2023 Issue “Mojave Ghost” “You said this zone here is not one of the earth’s sentences.” By Forrest Gander September 25, 2023 October 2, 2023 Issue “Blood” “A prerequisite is all of it everywhere.” By Dorothea Lasky September 25, 2023 September 25, 2023 Issue “So Attached You Are to Living in the World” “Cut off access to the feeding stream and the water will come instead from below.” By Melissa Ginsburg September 18, 2023 September 25, 2023 Issue “Mr. Sandman” “We picked at grains of salt between our toes.” By W. S. Di Piero September 18, 2023 September 18, 2023 Issue “Maybe in Another Life” “I can’t seem to say what it is I want / out loud.” By Tiana Clark September 11, 2023 September 18, 2023 Issue “A Protactile Version of ‘Tintern Abbey’ ” “When I smelled the smoke, I knew / Where I was.” By John Lee Clark September 11, 2023 1 2 3 4 5 ... 1,000 Cookies Settings © 2023 Condé Nast. All rights reserved. Use of and/or registration on any portion of this site constitutes acceptance of our User Agreement (updated as of 1/1/21) and Privacy Policy and Cookie Statement (updated as of 1/1/21). Your California Privacy Rights. The material on this site may not be reproduced, distributed, transmitted, cached or otherwise used, except with the prior written permission of Condé Nast. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products and services that are purchased through links on our site as part of our affiliate partnerships with retailers. Ad Choices