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Lim Solah (translated from the Korean by Olan Munson & Oh Eunkyung)
Again I clasp the broken watch on my wrist
and put on the flower print dress.
I flop down into a flower garden
flowerless.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- September 29, 2022
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- September 28, 2022
Analicia Sotelo
the suppression of language through the renaming of art and archival objects,
the suppression of language through talks of money
and fine new establishments at the peak of popularity.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- September 27, 2022
I’ve been rereading Javier Peñalosa M.’s poem “La grulla” for years now. I was moved to translate it (as “The Crane”) because it made me feel the way the Wright quote does, and because I both did and did not understand it, not entirely. I still don’t claim to, or care to. I translated this poem because I wanted to get closer to it. Sometimes that’s the only reason.
Result Type
- What Sparks Poetry
Feature Date
- September 26, 2022
Javier Peñalosa M. (translated from the Spanish by Robin Myers)
I stared, afraid to touch:
I’d never known about the drawing-out of death,
this trembling beyond pain.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- September 26, 2022
Danielle Cadena Deulen
Recall the feel of sap, the rules of hide-and-seek,
the bitter milk of dandelion dared to the tongue.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- September 25, 2022
Lasse Söderberg (translated from the Swedish by Lars Gustaf Andersson & Carolyn Forché)
He who wants to remember, and is full of darkness himself, must stand by the brim of himself as by a well...
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- September 24, 2022
Harmony Holiday
we kept laughing uncontrollably now and the rain sounds steal drums as us forgetting to act stolen
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- September 23, 2022
Stacie Cassarino
Three geese take refuge.
There were supposed to be thousands
of them. They were supposed to put on
a show for us.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- September 22, 2022
Lauren Goodwin Slaughter
I came here for the question
answered by the crowd's
ovation: a man now, must
I have blood on my face
to be seen.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- September 21, 2022
