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Chris Dombrowski
grip, so much like this white cloud that eludes
the branches’ grasp before lofting west: the wind-
blown work of her hands—long-traveled, adrift
from parts celestial, a word I haven’t quite relinquished.
book
Wayne State University Press
Feature Date
- March 27, 2023
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Wong May
The late Qing Emperor left 4 words
On a stone pier:
“Dawn Moon
Over Lugou”
journal
The Yale Review
Feature Date
- March 26, 2023
Series
Selected By
Traci Brimhall
That’s how I know I’m a successful candidate.
The temptations. The failures. The ever afters of forgiveness
I have already lived. For so long I offered others the love
I wanted to receive, the cursive letters and lost slippers.
journal
SWWIM
Feature Date
- March 25, 2023
Series
Selected By
Olivia Muenz
But don't let this get you. Down. Don't go all soft. On one now. I am frozen. In time. I am a big memory box. I am all meat. I can eat you alive if you let me.
book
Switchback Books
Feature Date
- March 24, 2023
Series
Selected By
Sarah Audsley
When my mother returns, she is
the bitter in my mouth I can’t dilute; she swells inside;
she’s the branch from which birds will never fly.
book
Texas Review Press
Feature Date
- March 23, 2023
Series
Selected By
Jami Padgett
when it died; the turtle I found
& kept
beneath my bed
with a leaf to eat,
that my brother threw
from the bowed back
door before he said
I was cruel
journal
Nashville Review
Feature Date
- March 22, 2023
Series
Selected By
Lee Ann Roripaugh
But as much as you efface yourself into shininess,
into neutral reflection—as if to try and trick
your mother’s pain into misrecognizing its own gaze
until it lifts away like burned-off fog—it never works.
journal
American Poetry Review
Feature Date
- March 21, 2023
Series
Selected By
Oliver Baez Bendorf
Trans is a way of arranging the world through change, but plastic is durable, meaning it never goes away. Very light, gets blown along in gentle winds. It gets washed by rain into sewers, streams, rivers, and finally oceans.
journal
Black Warrior Review
Feature Date
- March 20, 2023
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Katie Marya
light, make a sound. You wrote let me
believe the work I do can bring
the future into the room. Whether it
does or not. Whether it does or not.
book
Alice James Book
Feature Date
- March 19, 2023
Series
Selected By
William J. Harris
Well, yesterday, my $80 watch
broke
and Wendell offered
to sell me his watch for 50¢
—that would be a 100% profit!
journal
Poetry
Feature Date
- March 18, 2023
