These days, Alissa Quart’s attention has broken into strange shapes. But she has found a reprieve in one thing: poetry.

Gene Kahane reflects on five years of posting poems on trees in Alameda, "I’m writing this to say farewell to the five trees ...

Poem II from Adrienne Rich’s sequence Twenty ... Its description of a lovely but ordinary day ends with the affirming line “I love you. I’m glad I exist,” revealing that profound ...

I’ll pick a short one – Catullus. Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. My favourite translation is by Peter Whigham. It takes a bit of licence ...