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Joshua Beckman
pissy animals
nasty and surly
climbing out window
and into the world
book
Wave Books
Feature Date
- March 5, 2021
Series
Selected By
Rita Dove
You prefer me invisible, no more than
a crisp salute far away from
your silks and firewood and woolens.
Out of sight, I'm merely an annoyance,
one slim, obstinate wrinkle in night's
deepening trance.
journal
The Paris Review
Feature Date
- March 4, 2021
Series
Selected By
Ruth Stone
It is another raw winter. Stray cats are suffering.
Starlings crowd the edges of chimneys.
It is a drab misery that urges me to remember you.
I think about the subjugation of women and horses;
brutal exposure; weather that forces, that strips.
book
Copper Canyon Press
Feature Date
- March 3, 2021
Series
Selected By
Khaty Xiong
Summer oaks warring on the hills A doe partaking of a resurrecting tulip
Breakfast stray as my watery mind
How late the cloud of my body born here A year spent looking for the way
love claimed you The moon lording from the overhang & into open fire
journal
Poetry
Feature Date
- March 2, 2021
Series
Selected By
Valmiki (translated from the Sanskrit by Vivek Narayanan)
No one is poor in Ayodhya
No one is unhappy in Ayodhya
No one goes hungry in Ayodhya
No one is robbed in Ayodhya
No one is beaten in Ayodhya
book
Boiler House Press
Feature Date
- March 1, 2021
Series
- Translation, What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Mark Leidner
The jeansed horse prances through heaven
its big stupid meadow
of empty beauty
change shaking
in its pockets
like cosmic maracas.
book
Fonograf Editions
Feature Date
- February 28, 2021
Series
Selected By
Angela Narciso Torres
Above, a commonplace moon,
somewhere between half
and full, waxing edge
rubbed like the worn
ridges of a lucky quarter.
book
Four Way Books
Feature Date
- February 27, 2021
Series
Selected By
Šari Dale
The child eats trout eyes.
Like grapes, they pop
in her mouth. The skins
taste like smoke. She
likes to be seen chewing,
her lips white with oil.
journal
The Malahat Review
Feature Date
- February 26, 2021
Series
Selected By
Du Fu (translated from the Chinese by Wong May)
Good writing
Resents happy circumstances.
Good writers are rarely spared.
The demons of this world
Their gargoyle faces
Are made glad
Whenever men of talent hobble.
journal
PN Review
Feature Date
- February 25, 2021
Series
- Translation
Selected By
Anne Marie Macari
Bow down to limbo's
white light, quiet feet
down the hall
passing through
book
Persea Books
Feature Date
- February 24, 2021
