The Overview Effect
“We are stunned // when we see the thing we came to retrieve: / a body’s worth of ashes, divided into three bricks so tangible”
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Mass Bouquet
“like bees we are easily agitated / until we too idly gaze at the carefully organized skeletons”
2023 Palette Chapbook Prize: Winners & Finalists
We are honored to share with everyone the winners, finalists, and longlist of the 2023 Palette Chapbook Prize! Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. The winning chapbook was selected by Danez Smith.
love poem
“if the plastic island in the pacific / were actually an island / i would live there / with you.”
Poetry We Admire: Hybrids
This October, our team has curated poems with Hybrid forms, selected by Ben Bartu.
Womb Meditation
“we will spend the rest of our lives aching for wholeness— / the two of us together & each of us alone.”
Sonoran Desert
“Some might say I’m reaching, but that’s what metaphors do. / But inside them, there’s always a feather of truth.”
ars poetica of partridges & palestine
“Some might say I’m reaching, but that’s what metaphors do. / But inside them, there’s always a feather of truth.”