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Emily Tuszynska
we walked and rested and walked again
bowing
then kneeling
to each contraction as it came
some bright bit of blue
caught on the far bank
without panic
I felt each crest carry me farther
away from you
book
Grayson Books
Feature Date
- March 18, 2024
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
A. D. Lauren-Abunassar
Suppose I have lost that false start. Gone plunging my
hands in confession: It's been years since I fell in love with the light
of an ocean.
book
University of Arkansas Press
Feature Date
- March 17, 2024
Series
Selected By
Kevin Killian
His body, in state, or tumbled through
a rinse cycle drying in the feathery wind
lint on your net, your intersticed
net, who
I loved so long but not enough
book
Pilot Press
Feature Date
- March 16, 2024
Series
Selected By
Ariana Benson
Come,
while the billows surge, the froth soft
and warm. While foul minds lie blank.
A body of water is, in the end, but a field
in which you cannot be shackled. Know
yourselves, now, as but souls clothed
in skin, saying I do in refusal, as one
above the arched break.
journal
The Georgia Review
Feature Date
- March 15, 2024
Series
Selected By
William Letford
Heard a noise from the forest
and dropped into a crouch
Imagined an empathy zombie
Slevering kindness
book
Carcanet Press
Feature Date
- March 14, 2024