Poetry We Admire: AAPI Poets
This May, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by AAPI poets.
This May, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by AAPI poets.
“I promise / to open you like a drawer / and be surprised each time”
By Hannah Seo
“In Korean we do not say / you get older we say / you eat age / get plush with years”
This April, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by SWANA poets.
By Summer Farah
In Poetry Double Features, poet, critic, and editor Summer Farah moves away from the capitalistic language of “comparative titles” and instead towards the indulgence possible in considering two poetry collections that complement each other. The books paired here are not necessarily similar, but Farah asks: what language, pleasure, or wonder might be uncovered when they are read together? Poetry Double Features is in praise of the beautiful and unruly process of reading, synthesizing, and parsing out connective threads. This month, Farah considers Some Are Always Hungry by Jihyun Yun and Hijra by Hala Alyan.
“a father’s shame is the base of every triangle, the root of every family tree.”
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in April or May, including The Rising Poet Prize, The Etel Adnan Poetry Prize, Passages North, and more.
“O, Lorraine, I have / Been called strange & fruity, too: melon & / Lemon. Apple, mango, pine, cherry.”