In Paris, the moon was a pad of butter
and the sky was a room of girls.
Talin Tahajian
from the journal
Blackbox Manifold
What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.
In Books We’ve Loved, we’ve asked our editorial board members and select guest editors to reflect on a book that has been particularly meaningful to them in the last year, with the intention of creating a list of book recommendations for our valued readers.
- January 21, 2025
olga mikolaivna
I hold your name. My patronymic. It holds me.
- January 20, 2025
James Longenbach
Shortly before I died,
Or possibly after,
I moved to a small village by the sea.
- January 19, 2025
Saúl Hernández
When a winter storm hit Texas, the bluebonnet field sounded like glass.
- January 18, 2025
Margaret Ross
I smelled the corpses on my fingers
when I took my smoke break
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