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Eryn Green
We live on
the edge of
A raft through
dejection
A joy almost
too great
To speak...
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 18, 2020
Joseph J. Capista
Having seen the osprey
grasp then set its fish
so that en route from sea
to bay prey's eyes face
only west...
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 17, 2020
Avraham Chalfi (translated from the Hebrew by Atar Hadari)
And the body hurts itself the hurt
Of the entire world.
Let rain fall. Like a rainy autumn
That's awkward as a beast.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 16, 2020
Gemma Gorga (translated from the Catalan by Sharon Dolin)
I ponder it now, while holding this new book in my hands, the words still slick like the feathers of a newly hatched bird.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 15, 2020
Aria Aber
Each natural passing articulates
the unnatural: every aunt has a son
who fell, or a daughter who hid in rubble
for two years, until that knock of officers
holding a bin bag filled with a dress
and bones.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 14, 2020
Stanley Plumly
I miss the elms, their "crowns of airy dreams,"
as Virgil calls them, their towering cathedral branching
spread into a ceiling above the lonely sidewalks of Ohio
where the first elm deaths were reported in America.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 13, 2020
When I was his student, Stan used to say that a piece of writing is never really finished, but only rests. Perhaps, too, our love for a person or place, when it is true, is always unresting. Isn’t that, after all, what “Dutch Elm” implies?
Result Type
- What Sparks Poetry
Feature Date
- January 13, 2020
Hera Lindsay Bird
I am bored of making speeches
I have to say so many things I don't care about
It reminds me of life
It reminds me of when you are a cowboy and your hat gets too heavy
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 12, 2020
Faylita Hicks
left unburied to rot, black girls
writhe on asphalt. their shadows seethe
& seek out their ancestors. call on papa
legba in search of roots. seek a denouement
for black girls.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 11, 2020
Reginald Dwayne Betts
The things that abandon you get remembered different.
As precise as the English language can be, with words
like penultimate and perseverate, there is not a combination
of sounds that describes only that leaving.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 10, 2020
