Date: 2003
"How to hold it all at once, / except by passion's climb, / its rising tides & breathless, / hawk's-eye view?"
preview | full record— Spaar, Lisa Russ
Date: 2010
"But the squalor of it sank into my soul, adding not a little to the septic murk within."
preview | full record— Castle, Terry (b. 1953)
Date: 2010
"A thought to mind, so to the string / plucked, or touched, or bowed, the music is, / a wrinkling of the air as immaterial / and brief as sunlight glancing on a wave."
preview | full record— Le Guin, Ursula (b. 1929)
Date: 2011
"His thoughts washed back and forth between pitying the child and wanting to crush her, stamp her out for her own sake."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2011
"He stared at her little heart-shaped face and kissed her cheek and kissed her mouth and a thrilling horror spread like a stain through the hollow of his chest."
preview | full record— Nadzam, Bonnie
Date: 2014
"No, it's a strange beach; each body is a strange beach, and if you let in the excess emotion you will recall the Atlantic Ocean breaking on our heads."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: 2014
"That's the bruise the ice in the heart was meant to ice."
preview | full record— Rankine, Claudia (b. 1963)
Date: April 16, 2015
"And I must do so with both ardor and cool appraisal, with the passions of eye and heart, but in that ardent heart there must also be a splinter of ice."
preview | full record— Mann, Sally (b. 1951)
Date: February 18, 2017
"So we're stuck in Trump's head with him. ... It's a very cluttered place to be, a fine-tuned machine spewing a torrent of chaos, cruelty, confusion, farce and transfixing craziness."
preview | full record— Dowd, Maureen (b. January 14, 1952)
Date: February 21, 2019
"It was a place where she knew what was going to happen, a place where she would always choose the right side, where the failure was in history and not in herself, where she did not read the wrong writers, was not seized with surges of enthusiasm for the wrong leaders, did not eat the wrong anima...
preview | full record— Lockwood, Patricia