![Anita Lahey.](https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/POE_AnitaLahey_2023_1800-348x232.jpg)
Poetry
![Anita Lahey.](https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/POE_AnitaLahey_2023_1800-348x232.jpg)
![Julie Mannell.](https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/POE_JulieMannell_2023_1800-348x232.jpg)
A Love Poem for Steven Page
I’ve had others. I could be what’s been done, / I could be your Yoko—I hated you on MTV—Ono.
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Woody Strode, Black Cowboy
If you act like a nobody, / you are a nobody. The actor / Woody Strode wasn’t / just any nobody.
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![A portrait of poet Richard Sanger](https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/POE_RichardSanger_2022_1800-348x232.jpg)
November Run
and now you hang on my shoulder / as I lead the way, taking you on, pressing the pace
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Autofiction
Have I always been in the world? / No, I’ve been autumn in the middle of August.
Read More![Roxanna Bennett.](https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/POE_RoxannaBennett_2022_1800-348x232.jpg)
The Terrible Lottery
What is invisible is unreal, like love, / hunger, rage.
Read More![A photo of Sadiqa de Mejier.](https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/POE_SadiqadeMeijer_2022_1800-348x232.jpg)
Storm Warning
And what is thunder, and what makes stories end?
Read More![A man wearing a checkered blazer, glasses, and a fedora smiles and stares downward, against a bright pink background.](https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/pollock_poet_735-348x232.jpg)