Can You Hear the Shape of the Drum?
By Stephen Byrne. W.S. Merwin dies on the same day as the Christchurch mosque shootings.
Luke Perry is Dead at 52
By Aimee Mackovic. “His eyes two pools of lightning quicksand / a generation of girls will never quite escape.”
Fourteen Lines on Mary Oliver, Her Last January
By Daisy Bassen. We picture the late poet Mary Oliver, eternally seated at the table of the natural world.
![Photograph of Mary Oliver sitting at a table in her home, Pembroke Lodge, Richmond [1930s] Eileen Agar 1899-1991 Presented to Tate Archive by Eileen Agar in 1989 and transferred from the photograph collection in 2012. http://www.tate.org.uk/art/archive/TGA-8927-12-215-1](http://www.poetsreadingthenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/mary-oliver-4-e1547863984244.jpg)
Yesterday Small Voices
By Donna Spruijt-Metz. Pulitzer-Prize winning poet Mary Oliver has died at 83.
Yemeni Child
By Buff Whitman-Bradley. “The little starving girl has a house inside her chest filled with lambent light…”
The Far Side of the Moon
By Donna Doyle. “After you die, the news goes on without your commentary…”
America’s Covenant
By Marya Zilberberg. “We cry. We rejoice. Our mouths caress the names of our dead.”
Yellow Bridge
By Clare Welsh. Pittsburgh rapper Mac Miller has died at 26.
Requiem
By Lynn M. Knapp. On John McCain’s funeral rites.
Dr. Richter’s Obituary
By Pesach Rotem. A poet reads the obituary of a Nobel Prize-winning physicist.