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Eryn Green
We live on
the edge of
A raft through
dejection
A joy almost
too great
To speak...
journal
Conduit
Feature Date
- January 18, 2020
Series
Selected By
Joseph J. Capista
Having seen the osprey
grasp then set its fish
so that en route from sea
to bay prey's eyes face
only west...
book
Ohio University Press
Feature Date
- January 17, 2020
Series
Selected By
Avraham Chalfi (translated from the Hebrew by Atar Hadari)
And the body hurts itself the hurt
Of the entire world.
Let rain fall. Like a rainy autumn
That's awkward as a beast.
journal
Image
Feature Date
- January 16, 2020
Series
- Translation
Selected By
Gemma Gorga (translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin)
I ponder it now, while holding this new book in my hands, the words still slick like the feathers of a newly hatched bird.
book
Oberlin College Press
Feature Date
- January 15, 2020
Series
- Editor's Choice, Translation
Selected By
- Eric Pankey
Aria Aber
Each natural passing articulates
the unnatural: every aunt has a son
who fell, or a daughter who hid in rubble
for two years, until that knock of officers
holding a bin bag filled with a dress
and bones.
book
University of Nebraska Press
Feature Date
- January 14, 2020
Series
Selected By
Stanley Plumly
I miss the elms, their "crowns of airy dreams,"
as Virgil calls them, their towering cathedral branching
spread into a ceiling above the lonely sidewalks of Ohio
where the first elm deaths were reported in America.
book
W. W. Norton & Company
Feature Date
- January 13, 2020
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Hera Lindsay Bird
I am bored of making speeches
I have to say so many things I don't care about
It reminds me of life
It reminds me of when you are a cowboy and your hat gets too heavy
book
Smith|Doorstop
Feature Date
- January 12, 2020
Series
Selected By
Faylita Hicks
left unburied to rot, black girls
writhe on asphalt. their shadows seethe
& seek out their ancestors. call on papa
legba in search of roots. seek a denouement
for black girls.
book
Acre Books
Feature Date
- January 11, 2020
Series
Selected By
Reginald Dwayne Betts
The things that abandon you get remembered different.
As precise as the English language can be, with words
like penultimate and perseverate, there is not a combination
of sounds that describes only that leaving.
journal
The Paris Review
Feature Date
- January 10, 2020
Series
Selected By
Cristina Rivera Garza (translated from the Spanish by Julia Leverone)
Forked, like they say sometimes about the tongue to mean
it's full of danger.
Unresolved, as they qualify novels sometimes, the ones without
happy endings.
Fluid, like the Postmodern condition or like life itself.
journal
Spoon River Poetry Review
Feature Date
- January 9, 2020
Series
- Translation
