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Hala Alyan
It's beautiful to speak for her; she's dead.
I sit in the scalding bath. I like to change my skin.
This is my sanity: salt and bubbles. To outlive
is to become mockingbird: She was, she was.
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Southern Humanities Review
Feature Date
- December 1, 2021
Series
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Ginny Threefoot
When my ancestors began the work of me,
I was already old. I was only a child,
I swam as an eel, I tallied on fingers,
measuring everything.
journal
Under a Warm Green Linden
Feature Date
- November 30, 2021
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Coach House Books
Feature Date
- November 29, 2021
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
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Margo Tamez
Protector, Enemy Slayer, went to the stronghold place you know this today
as the Guadalupe Mountains, over there.
book
Turtle Point Press
Feature Date
- November 28, 2021
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Alina Stefanescu
I meet the birds on their
terrain, the gray of.
Chimney swifts smudged, sifted
from clouds like feathered
cinders, all is blurred or
wisps of smoke, an attendance.
journal
Kenyon Review
Feature Date
- November 27, 2021
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Asiya Wadud
the ferries encumber their own weight. they pass each other at close range. the unlikely vessels transmit their cargo. all the bodies carry on.
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Nightboat Books
Feature Date
- November 26, 2021
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Mihaela Moscaliuc
I waddle among pelicans of grief.
They waddle through me,
our throat sacs stapled shut.
I stir the third soup, lovage and thirteen bean . . .
journal
New Letters
Feature Date
- November 25, 2021
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Cynthia Dewi Oka
A tall man wipes ashes from his lips. “I’ll pay you,”
he says. “If you’re worthy.” From the lamp of his skull, a steeple
rises. Roaches seek warmth in the dead bells, while cherry
blossoms burst their green corsets.
book
Northwestern University Press
Feature Date
- November 24, 2021
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Deborah Warren
Earth is his occupation, and the mole
works the turf in his native breaststroke, swimming
hallways into the sod—a geonaut
book
Paul Dry Books
Feature Date
- November 23, 2021
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Jorie Graham
They would not stop, resolution of will
and helplessness, as the eye
is helpless
when the image forms itself, upside-down, backward,
driving up into
the mind, and the world
unfastens itself
from the deep ocean of the given. . . .
book
Princeton University Press
Feature Date
- November 22, 2021
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
