blessing the boats

by Lucille Clifton

Small Kindnesses

by Danusha Lameris

Gift

by Czeslaw Milosz

So Much Happiness

by Naomi Shihab Nye

For Keeps

by Joy Harjo

Instructions on Not Giving Up

by Ada Limón

Under the Day

by W. S. Merwin

The Beautiful Changes

by Richard Wilbur

Throwing Children

by Ross Gay

The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee

by N. Scott Momaday

Let it be so

by Lois Roma Deely

sonnet for the long second act

by Evie Shockley

Summer Haibun

by Aimee Nezhukumatathil

The Dogs at Live Oak Beach, Santa Cruz

by Alicia Ostricker

From Blossoms

by Li Young-Lee

Today

by Billy Collins

This is the Honey

by Mahogany Browne

A Party

by John Brandi

Joy

by Stuart Kestenbaum

Cento Between the Ending and the End

by Cameron Awkward-Rich