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Dionne Brand
to acquire the basic level of existence
all can be lost
in that particular resolve...
book
Duke University Press
Feature Date
- December 7, 2022
Series
- Editor's Choice
Selected By
- Brian Teare
Michael Bazzett
How exactly did we get here? they muttered.
All our lives we opened
for others, yet now it seems life’s just begun—
journal
The Cortland Review
Feature Date
- December 6, 2022
Series
Selected By
Celia Dropkin (translated from the Yiddish by Faith Jones, Jennifer Kronovet, & Samuel Solomon)
A fear was growing
in my heart: I smelled
the putrid odor of my grave
around me.
book
Tebot Bach
Feature Date
- December 5, 2022
Series
- Translation
Selected By
journal
OCTO
Feature Date
- December 4, 2022
Series
Selected By
Jennifer Polson Peterson
sad every afternoon of my life.
Outside a child runs in the grass.
Soon I will appear and call her to me.
journal
Colorado Review
Feature Date
- December 3, 2022
Series
Selected By
grace (ge) gilbert
and they all last
forever
in our silence.
journal
TYPO
Feature Date
- December 2, 2022
Series
Selected By
Safia Elhillo
my loosened hair smells of coal
floats over the backseat like smoke
book
Penguin Random House
Feature Date
- December 1, 2022
Series
Selected By
Marianne Boruch
As for the magpies, their livers surely tried to clear, to strain
the poison. Fast or slow, the birds, I bet—
how many?—flew just fine for a while in screechy loops.
Then to fall, to try up again. And failing.
book
Copper Canyon Press
Feature Date
- November 30, 2022
Series
Selected By
Alice Fulton
Here in the north of north
everything was formed by what ice did
to the land, and darkness is redundant.
book
W. W. Norton & Company
Feature Date
- November 29, 2022
Series
Selected By
book
Washington Writers' Publishing House
Feature Date
- November 28, 2022
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
