We’re kicking off National Poetry Month 2026 with a new round-up of poems to celebrate the work of the United States’s current Poet Laureate, Arthur Sze …
Transfigurations
Arthur Sze
SNIPPET:
Though neither you nor I saw flowering pistachio trees
in the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, though neither
you nor I saw the Tigris River stained with ink,
though we never heard a pistachio shell dehisce,
we have taken turns holding a panda as it munched
on bamboo leaves, and I know that rustle now.
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