Steven Leyva
I could praise the present tense, and begin again.
I could condition this vow: I will not love
anyone else, but instead begin to hum
in your ear, reader, lover, gray stranger.
from the journal
Smartish Pace
What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.
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- June 9, 2023
Forrest Gander & Katie Holten
whipplevine punctured by snags and deadfall and sorrel
- June 7, 2023
Will Alexander
as magical utterance
as roughage self-specified in opening form onto random scholarly dust
thus
asking myself the one-line equation of how astonishment boils
- June 6, 2023
Eleni Sikelianos
for dream. Then I remembered language
is a lingering we keep hoping will draw
up exigence like water
from a well, metal...
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