Poetry

The Book of Poetry · 大雅 · Major Odes

《詩經》— 大雅 · Major Odes, from the Book of Poetry, the ancient Confucian anthology of odes. Bilingual; translated by James Legge.

The Book of Poetry · 小雅 · Minor Odes

《詩經》— 小雅 · Minor Odes, from the Book of Poetry, the ancient Confucian anthology of odes. Bilingual; translated by James Legge.

The Book of Poetry · 國風 · Airs of the States

《詩經》— 國風 · Airs of the States, from the Book of Poetry, the ancient Confucian anthology of odes. Bilingual; translated by James Legge.

Live As You Exist

Live as You Exist highlights the common struggle of chronic rumination and the cruelty that is its often-cyclical nature. Winner of the 2nd NH Witty Poets Competition.

Percy Shelley to Teresa Viviani

Charity at 11

A nocturnal meditation on guilt and charity in Oxford’s winter hush. The poem follows a speaker wandering Little Clarendon Street, caught between pity and self-reproach, where an act of giving becomes a reckoning with solitude, privilege, and the limits of goodness.

I Wish I Still Had Time to Ask About The Camellias

"This piece focuses on the realization that I can no longer ask my grandmother, who has dementia, about the details of her life when she was younger; it's a reflection on memories being lost within a person."

3 Poems

Fib, cue, xyz, both individually and as a combination of imageries, tells about how we or our senses are expanded into the unseen dimensions of the seen.

Office Maid by Julia Clark

This poem juxtaposes the mundanity of contemporary office work with the fantasticality of supernatural mythology for a surreal take on modern work culture and its often obscured ties to environmental destruction and capitalism exploitation.

Ancient Whispers: A Mythic Poem Sequence

These poems are drawn from a sequence entitled “Ancient Whispers” that utilize themes from classical or Slavic myth. Each poem deals with the irony and vicissitudes of human experience.

Auxier Ridge Trail

“Auxier Ridge Trail” is a lyric meditation on emotional exhaustion, intimacy, and the erosive beauty of shared experience within a natural landscape.

Nekyia and four poems

Five poems of the soul’s striving toward the divine.

Five Poems by John Leonard

These are five poems showcasing some of Leonard's different poetic forms.

A New Hampshire River

A river's current gives a sense of rebirth, negating possible feelings of loss.

The Dogwood + 7 poems by Elise Powers

8 poems, each exploring the intersections of memory, tenderness, and the sacred ordinary.

What Durkheim Dreams About

“What Durkheim Dreams About” is a poem I wrote while taking a sociology class and having to read excerpts from Durkheim’s Suicide. I disliked his approach to life and wrote this poem inspired by that, as sort of a subversion and way to try to empathize with what he was saying.

Five Poems by Sreelekha Chatterjee

My mind experiences an emotional barrenness, resembling an empty terrace. An empty seat is forever there, indicating an absence, perhaps a spiritual emptiness.

When the Body Breaks

When the Body Breaks” explores physical illness as a spiritual unraveling that nonetheless makes space for reverence. This poem exists in the tension between alienation and awe, asking what it means to carry pain with dignity and whether the soul’s transformations might be holy in their fragility

Five Poems by Sanjeev Sethi

We let no flügelhorn animate the atmosphere. Our presence drew the stelliferous to a party of two. In the reign of rhythms, we repeatedly heard our song; meaningful to us but mute to the others. That is how strains are or should be.