Social Media Poems 2020 Simeon Berry Contents What Happens in 1918 Won’t Stay in 1918 (Karyna McGlynn) ............................................................... 1 In the Champagne Room with Grandma (Bianca Stone) ........................................................................... 2 A Morning Person (Mary Ruefle) ............................................................................................................. 3 Corpse Flower (Kerri Webster) ................................................................................................................ 4 How to Be Drawn to Trouble (Terrance Hayes) ....................................................................................... 5 Translations (Kathryn Nuernberger) ........................................................................................................ 7 The Great Lakes (Keetje Kuipers) .......................................................................................................... 10 The Sky Wet with Signals (Alex Green) ................................................................................................. 11 North of Manhattan (Vijay Seshadri) ..................................................................................................... 12 Ruins (Laura Read) ............................................................................................................................... 14 Dear Editor: (Amy Newman) .................................................................................................................. 15 Appeal to the Self (Meghan O’Rourke) .................................................................................................. 16 Close Space (Natalie Shapero) .............................................................................................................. 17 Paranoid (Jonathan Moody) ................................................................................................................... 18 The Conversation (Lauren Shapiro) ....................................................................................................... 19 from “In Search of Wealth” (Anna Moschovakis) ................................................................................... 20 Aphorisms (Charles Simic) .................................................................................................................... 22 George Clark across the United States (Lauren Clark) ........................................................................... 23 Study Abroad (Kiki Petrosino)............................................................................................................... 24 Gender Bender (Jennifer Michael Hecht) ............................................................................................... 25 Embarrassment (Carrie Fountain) ......................................................................................................... 26 Conversion Party (Erin Hoover) ............................................................................................................ 28 [Yes, I saw them all, saw them, met some, Richard Hell] (Diane Seuss) ................................................. 30 Pilgrimage (Erin Adair-Hodges) ............................................................................................................ 31 When a Man I Love Jerks Off in My Bed Next to Me and Falls Asleep (Morgan Parker) ...................... 32 Believing Anagrams (Kelli Russell Agodon) .......................................................................................... 33 A River in an Ocean of Space (Christine Gosnay) .................................................................................. 34 The Forgotten Dialect of the Heart (Oliver Bendorf) .............................................................................. 35 How the Sausage Is Made (Joanna Penn Cooper) .................................................................................. 36 A Farewell to Shopping (Barbara Hamby)............................................................................................. 37 Everything is a Hat (Marni Ludwig) ...................................................................................................... 38 Call Me to Prayer (Hala Alyan) ............................................................................................................. 39 When I was Fifteen (Matthew Zapruder) ............................................................................................... 40 Again, Let’s Do It Again (Meghan Privitello) ........................................................................................ 42 Beatitudes (Mary Biddinger) ................................................................................................................. 43 Aphorisms (James Richardson) ............................................................................................................. 44 After You Have Gone (Kevin Prufer) .................................................................................................... 45 Don Pullen at The Zanzibar Blue Jazz Café (Major Jackson) ................................................................. 46 from Four Horaces (Dan Chiasson) ...................................................................................................... 48 J M (J.D. Scrimgeour) ........................................................................................................................... 49 A girl brings me home to nothing (Gala Mukomolova) .......................................................................... 50 Vision Test in the First Grade (Jennifer Martelli)................................................................................... 51 Barbie Chang Has No Intention (Victoria Chang) .................................................................................. 52 Juneau (Dorianne Laux) ........................................................................................................................ 53 Bride of Tricky D. (Rachel Loden)......................................................................................................... 54 After Reading That the Milky Way Is Devouring the Galaxy of Sagittarius (Erin Belieu) ....................... 55 Beautiful Funeral (Monica Ferrell) ........................................................................................................ 56 Dark Girl Dressed in Blue (Robin Ekiss) ................................................................................................ 57 from “Song for My Father” (Sean Thomas Dougherty) .......................................................................... 58 Deposition: On That Night & All That Was After (Emma Bolden) ......................................................... 60 from “13th Balloon” (Mark Bibbins)...................................................................................................... 61 Men Keep on Dying (Michael McGriff) ................................................................................................. 62 before it chooses you (Cassandra de Alba) ............................................................................................ 64 Night (Andrea Cohen) ........................................................................................................................... 65 & What Shoulder, & What Art (Marc McKee) ....................................................................................... 66 Appetite (Aaron Smith) .......................................................................................................................... 67 from “After Damascus” (Paul Guest) .................................................................................................... 68 Some of Us (Ann Lauterbach) ............................................................................................................... 70 First Child Miscarried (Pimone Triplett) ................................................................................................ 72 Nineteen (Elizabeth Alexander) ............................................................................................................. 74 Antidepressant (Adrienne Su) ................................................................................................................ 75 Swan Song (Kelly Morse) ...................................................................................................................... 77 from “Life of Johnson/Upside Your Head, a Libretto” (Forrest Gander) ............................................... 78 After Hours, Provincetown Cemetery (Kendra DeColo) ........................................................................ 79 Three Rivers (Justin Bigos) ................................................................................................................... 80 Dead Reckoning (Julia Story). ............................................................................................................... 82 Breaking the Air (Victoria Redel) .......................................................................................................... 83 from “Coney Island” (Julie Sheehan) ..................................................................................................... 84 Anonymous Lyric (Connie Voisine) ....................................................................................................... 85 Still Falling (Jill McDonough) ..............................................................................................................