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Luisa Muradyan
I hold him close
and walk away from
other mothers singing
their own version of
don't be afraid
journal
The Threepenny Review
Feature Date
- January 20, 2022
Series
Selected By
Vénus Khoury-Ghata (translated from the French by Marilyn Hacker)
it should have been beautiful and it was merely sad
gardens departed this life more slowly than men
journal
Poetry London
Feature Date
- January 19, 2022
Series
- Translation
Selected By
David Kirby
I'm actually looking for another street when I turn into
the Via Tornabuoni, named for the Tornabuoni family
and specifically its patriarch, Giovanni, banker and patron
of the arts in Florence . . .
book
LSU Press
Feature Date
- January 18, 2022
Series
Selected By
Lucille Clifton
it was her iron,
or one like hers,
that smoothed the sheets
the master poet slept on.
book
BOA Editions
Feature Date
- January 17, 2022
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Dimitri Reyes
On every counter and beside
the entertainment center,
space is claimed by little wings plucking harps.
Trumpets leading
an unknown charge of credit cards.
book
Digging Press
Feature Date
- January 16, 2022
Series
- Editor's Choice
Selected By
- Phillip B. Williams
Michael Collier
Three in a group, then one coming from a distance
to make four dividing into two scavenging pairs.
They waddle like ducks, dibble like robins.
This close to the earth they have nothing to say.
book
University of Chicago Press
Feature Date
- January 15, 2022
Series
Selected By
Kendra Allen
Who saw the sticky tie itself
To my navel
My hair the color of damp sand now
Because I made it that way
book
Ecco
Feature Date
- January 14, 2022
Series
Selected By
CAConrad
my first meal after his death
a decision to persist without him
please do not attempt to command
the common winds
book
Wave Books
Feature Date
- January 13, 2022
Series
Selected By
Gary Jackson
Consider how it recalls the simplest movements.
How it always shoots the right foot first.
It never forgets where to hold tight the apex
of a cursive G before rounding her sloping curve.
book
University of New Mexico Press
Feature Date
- January 12, 2022
Series
Selected By
Oscar Oswald
Once it begins, the score is obvious.
White vines with wildflowers spring
along the fence, our center. Syntax folds,
the ballot shrinks into a coin and flips . . .
book
Nightboat Books
Feature Date
- January 11, 2022
