where time dips & meets horizon
By Ela Kini
“masked in wilting flowers, the face is not a face but a skull unfinished.”
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2023 Resistance & Resilience Prize Winners & Finalists
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2023 Resistance & Resilience Prize! Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Natasha Rao.
kh like khummus
By Bazeed
“that bark & branches bristle / with eyes / see all that happens / under the sky. / all that murders & slithers / from sea to shining sea.”
Banjo Be
By Maurya Kerr
“banjo be deeply known by its own / before bootlegged for mass / production, instruction manual, smash & grab of its soul.”
Sharper Than
“Honed a kind of malingering, for most of that stint – / part-response to my farm-crazed aunt’s / unsparing miserableness.”
Girl Werewolf
By Emma Buckley
“The wolf-girl is content that she prayed so hard for sharp teeth, / as the washing machines spin like the records used to do, / and the streetlights buzz like door-to-door salesman or houseflies”
Lover of Faith, Lover of Marble
“before the insects trill their morning song / after the sisters snore their night prayers / we each take up cloth and name”
If These Covers Could Talk #8
In If These Covers Could Talk, poets interview the visual artists whose works grace their book covers. The result is an engaging discussion of process, vision, and projects. This series is a celebration of collaboration—here, we champion the fruitful conversations taking place both on and behind the cover.
This month, poet Dimitri Reyes talked to artist Samuel Miranda about the cover of Papi Pichón (Get Fresh Books Publishing, 2023).
I Call the Thing That Was Before Us Lucy Because It Bore Her Shape
“even as you pray what’s between you / and disaster is more than tape / and padded cups.”