Rosie Stockton
what if we kissed
in the Amazon locker?
crude oil massage, your hand lotion
on my choke points
your most fresh sacrifice
boxed like Blue Apron
from the book
Permanent Volta /
Nightboat Books
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 asked our editorial board members 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.
- July 30, 2021
Jaswinder Bolina
They wanted other people’s transit
and squalor. They’d been prepping
for years in unincorporated Atlanta
when a job-call lit up their scopes.
- July 29, 2021
Liz Howard
The value in a dead woman
is that she cannot be killed
again or cross-examined.
The value in being the dead
woman at trial is the Crown
doesn't represent you
regardless.
- July 28, 2021
Sara Lupita Olivares
you can see only the shape of the red-billed pigeon
in the bathroom window, opaqueness
a distance the yard
repeats.
- July 27, 2021
Nora Claire Miller
A visual poem by Nora Claire Miller
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