Autumn 2026 (Volume LXXIX, No. 3)

Notes on Making a Canonical Anthology: The Oxford Book of American Poetry

by David Lehman

Walkin’ Wavy

by Rachel Hadas

From Xanthus: A Hippiad

by A.e. Stallings

The Marabout and the King

by Shahriar Shaams

The Crystal Shop on Gouraud Street

by Yara Zgheib

The Youngest; The Way of the Snake; Thrive; Poetry Enters the Room

by Wendy Videlock

Switchgrass

by Emma Bolden

Mary Stuart, the Aftermath

by Elisabeth Murawski

Advice for Daughters; Dating App Instructions

by Rebecca Foust

A Late Visit to Skyhaven; Assemblage

by Patricia Hooper

My Grown Son Is Building a Huge Computer; President Yeltsin’s Yellow Roses 

by Mary Jane White

Diane

by Joyce Wilson

Crow

by Bob Johnson

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey and Civilizational Collapse

by Erick Neher

At the Galleries

by Karen Wilkin

Dancing in New York: In Search of a Style

by Marina Harss

Jefferson Agonistes

by Brooke Allen

Gifts Forged from Trial: The Poems of Sylvia Plath

by Meg Schoerke

“With people, sublimity never sticks”

by Bruce Whiteman

Land of Ire

by Susan Balée

James Joyce and Politics

by David Mason

Reading Flannery O’Connor

by William H. Pritchard

Eating Our Words: Everything AI Is Missing Out On

by Liane Strauss

Notes on Contributors