Mantis 18 (2020)

The Issue

Introduction

New Poetry

Lucy Alford

Grass Crossing
Worry Word
Fire Escaping

Lauren Scharhag

Emerge

Sharon Dolin

Do nothing for as long as possible
Only the part, not the whole
Turn it upside down

Ivan Young

Ferris Wheel

Will Walker

Ode to My Nose

Thomas McDonald

Plastic or glass?

John Timothy Robinson

The Illusion of Yellowed
Transparencies

Lauren Camp

Crossing a Border

Cynthia Robinson Young

I Had a Dream, Part II

Rachel Tramonte

Open

Stephen Bett

Steve McCaffery: Post-Ubu Roi
Ron Padgett: Adventures of a Sleight’d Hand

Cheryl Clark Vermeuelen

Looseleaf
The Almost
The Almost

Translations

Yau Ching
translated by Chenxin Jiang

Private Furniture Symphony
flats, no people

Marcelo Morales
translated by Kristin Dykstra

The sun rises again on America

Arthur Rimbaud
translated by Mark Irwin

Vowels
City

Zeynep Köylü
translated by Mel Kenne and İdil Karacadağ

the walk
wet hibiscus

translated by Donny Smith

atlases lost

Mālik Ibn Al-rayb
translated by David Larsen

Two poems over a dead highwayman

From the Book of Taliesin
translated by Katherine Robinson

excerpted from The Hostile Confederacy

Amanda Berenguer
translated by Kristin Dykstra

from The Lady of Elche

Elif Sofya
translated by Donny Smith

Centipede

The Work of Heather Dohollau

Clémence O'Connor

Introduction to the Translation

Special Sections

West Coast Poetry

Shoshana Olidort

West Coast Poetry: An Introduction

Rae Armantrout

My Place
Siphon
Sutra

Karolina Zapal

Pacific Coast Highway: a phone note travelogue

Marina Chen

Ski Lift

A. Molotkov

The Small Bang

John James

Scalability
Wintering

Patricia Nelson

Those Who Have Been to the Fire

Stephanie Young

Not Done Burning (5 untitled poems)

Prageeta Sharma

Friendment
Secular Onement
This Day

 


“If not smoothly, yet again – into a vacated domain”

Poems through Amherst College

Melih Levi

Introduction

Elias Baez

Haircut
Skin in the Game

Sasha Burshteyn

Wild Fields

Peter Covino

Gas Station, March Night

Sandra Doller

Architecture is an idea that you live in

Rachel Edelman

Clearing Out
Stone Way North

Elizabeth Galoozis

Disruptions

Amir Hall

Yampee

Max Kaisler

The Sun House

Kirun Kapur

Waiting for Sleep, I Imagine
Sita in Her Youth

Elizabeth Knapp

Self-Portrait as Kurt Cobain’s
Suicide Weapon

Victoria Luizzi

Viderunt Omnes

Rachel Nelson

Brer Rabbit in Love

Murat Nemet-Nejat

Entropy

Christina Olivares

They talk in Spanish
over our heads

Katherine Robinson

Swimmer

Julia Roch

Horse Show

Brian Simoneau

Equinox

Christopher Spaide

Dunkin’ Doldrums

Nina Sudhakar

Dialogue with the Oldest Tree
in the U.S., whose Location
is a Closely-Guarded Forest
Service Secret

Tess Taylor

Around the Hotsy Totsy

Anne Pierson Wiese

Autocorrect for Beauty

JinJin Xu

Right Before Summer’s Arrival 196

Matthew Zapruder

A Love Song

The Embodied Mind


Essays

Nikki Skillman

from The Lyric in the Age of the Brain

Lucy Alford

Broken Lyrics: Forms of Survival and the Survival of Form in Darwish, Mackey, and Rankine

Laura Wittman

Embodied Mind and Time


Poems

Franny Choi

Bottom Affect: Awe
Its Language an Impenetrable Jungle of Consonants and Vowels
Real Thing


Chris Holdaway

None Most of All

Anna Seidel

Storyline
Side sleepers

William Clark

The Host
The Gardener
The Ponderosa

Hrishikesh Srinivas

The double dream of spring
The Mind as a Leaf