Poetry We Admire: Black Voices
“This Black history month, we return to poems from our archives, poems we love, poems that have changed us, poems we think about all the time.”
Benjamin Bartu
Benjamin Bartu is a poet & writer. He is the author of the chapbook Myriad Reflector (2023), runner-up for the Poetry Online Chapbook Contest. His poetry has been nominated for Best of the Net, and his writing has appeared in nat.brut, Guesthouse, The Lickety-Split, Adroit Journal, & elsewhere. An Associate Editor at Palette Poetry & Editor at Literistic, he can be found on twitter @alampnamedben.
Poetry We Admire: Blueprints
“Anna Atkins, rock climbing videos, victims of expectation.”
Poetry We Admire: 2021
“Days of rain, panic, Simone Weil, potential spam.”
Poetry We Admire: Form
I had not been seventeen so long when Patter was published and Douglas Kearney came to town. In …
Poetry We Admire: Erosion
I tend to get nervous faced with the impulse to begin an article by tracing etymology. To frame …
Poetry We Admire: Afghan Poets
Over the course of the last month, the world has watched violence unfold at a shocking pace across …
Poetry We Admire: Tipping Points
This August’s Poetry We Admire comes on the heels of a month which saw the release of the …
Poetry We Admire: The Body
This June, Palette’s Poetry We Admire column looks at four recent poems which all engage with the theme of The Body, a site of growth, of memory, of loss and beginning, of wishes granted, left, or half-fulfilled.
Poetry We Admire: The Truth
This month, we admire and celebrate the work and words of Black poets.