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Laura Read
and his mother is still drawing her endless breaths up
through her ribs and I can't sit anymore, I am thinking
about the window and how I have to get outside.
book
University of Massachusetts Press
Feature Date
- May 2, 2024
Series
Selected By
Diannely Antigua
We blessed the baby
while we tied around our wrists one long, red string.
For a moment, the string connected us-wives, mothers,
and me, neither-until it didn't, until the scissors severed
us, made a bracelet of the blood string.
book
Copper Canyon Press
Feature Date
- May 1, 2024
Series
Selected By
Diane Seuss
Blue once told me I walked in on him peeing and laughed.
That it ruined his life.
Well, Jesus, I'm sorry.
I would never have apologized back then.
book
Graywolf Press
Feature Date
- April 30, 2024
Series
Selected By
Lindsay Turner
what you need to understand is
it's systems not people
the bright formal nothings
go rising up the hill
book
University of Chicago Press
Feature Date
- April 29, 2024
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Joyce Mansour (translated from the French by C. Francis Fisher)
Yesterday pastel pink
Colored my dreams again
Everything clouded with you
book
World Poetry
Feature Date
- April 28, 2024
Series
- Translation
