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 …
Residence on Earth
Arthur Sze
Snippet:
…
two rivers flowed down the steps to the far right
and left; as I read our emotions resemble leaves
and alive to their shapes we are nourished,
I understood how poets from all over the world
had come for peace, solidarity, justice—
and when my host, and reader of my poems
in Spanish, invited me into his home, I saw
one way to live during our residencia en la tierra.
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