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Marvin Bell
Oh pretty dogs that reap the rage of benefactors in good times.
Oh dogs shorn of the outdoors, oh clipped, oh shaggy shaggy shaggy.
The dead man's dog does not sit up and beg.
book
Copper Canyon Press
Feature Date
- December 11, 2019
Series
- Editor's Choice
Selected By
- Eric Pankey
James Cagney
Let me answer the question you have of me: No.
You were my idol. Of course I don't know how to love
but I know how to be shamed
& no two tears fall or taste the same.
book
Nomadic Press
Feature Date
- December 10, 2019
Series
Selected By
Emily Dickinson
I started Early – Took my Dog –
And visited the Sea –
The Mermaids in the Basement
Came out to look at me –
book
Ecco
Feature Date
- December 9, 2019
Series
Selected By
Willy Palomo
Imagine tongues hungry for everything
but your name. Imagine being here
for millennia only to be called exotic.
journal
Thrush Poetry Journal
Feature Date
- December 8, 2019
Series
Selected By
Sasha West
Cows calve, horses foal, goats kid, but women do not child.
Another verb separates us from the noun of it, a distance between
cells that split in my body, my body, and her wet fur on my stomach.
journal
American Poetry Review
Feature Date
- December 7, 2019
Series
Selected By
John Gosslee
The secret between us is where the tongue rests,
the oxidation of enamel in the mouth,
night after long night and I want to wake
with the hands I know in my hair.
book
Nomadic Press
Feature Date
- December 6, 2019
Series
Selected By
Kadham Khanjar (translated from the Arabic by Khaled Hegazzi & Andy Young)
Yesterday I went to the forensic office. They'd asked for a fingerprint to match the DNA. They told me they had found some unidentified bones, and here I am again, circling like an orange on the knife of hope.
journal
The Southern Review
Feature Date
- December 5, 2019
Series
- Translation
Selected By
Amanda Berenguer (translated from the Spanish by Urayoán Noel)
Why this sand in amber and repose? This stone what?
a soft grind? Desert body invading the sheet where I write
the page where I'm signing the eagle, the book where
I feather myself with pleasure.
book
Ugly Ducking Presse
Feature Date
- December 4, 2019
Series
- Editor's Choice, Translation
Selected By
- Vivek Narayanan
book
Autumn House Press
Feature Date
- December 3, 2019
Series
Selected By
Marjorie Welish
I have lived and eaten simply.
I have leaned against the shape of handsome choices.
The almanac conceals a pasture you would like.
The universe is cast in consequences.
book
Burning Deck Press
Feature Date
- December 2, 2019
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
