House doors were left unlocked:
what thief would steal an empty bag of rice?
Hee-June Choi
from the journal
New Ohio Review
Poets on poetic language as patterned language—how words as sound, voice, sentence, and song become elements of form.
- July 5, 2025
Luca D’Anselmi
close doorways so old memories won't try
to whisper doubtful nothings down the halls
- July 4, 2025
Afrizal Malna (translated from the Indonesian by Daniel Owen)
Someone has disappeared. But someone has shattered too. The
president is in the hospital. His hands and throat spout saws. But
- July 3, 2025
mónica teresa ortiz
I was in high school when Oklahoma City was bombed
- July 2, 2025
Noelle Kocot
What
Longs for spirit is only a body. I would
Say anything to have one, again, again.
- July 1, 2025
Natasha Ramoutar
Hear your fate, O famished sustenance seeker, for I have come to quell your
hunger.
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