Poetry We Admire: AAPI Poets
This May, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by AAPI poets.
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A Certain Slant of Light
“I promise / to open you like a drawer / and be surprised each time”
Collecting, yes, collecting still
By Hannah Seo
“In Korean we do not say / you get older we say / you eat age / get plush with years”
Poetry We Admire: SWANA Poets
This April, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by SWANA poets.
Poetry Double Features #2
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.
Footnotes to Being Nigerian and an Arrow at full draw
“a father’s shame is the base of every triangle, the root of every family tree.”
Deadlines: April & May 2023
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.
ON OUR BIRTHDAY, LORRAINE HANSBERRY & I DISCUSS SUNLIGHT
“O, Lorraine, I have / Been called strange & fruity, too: melon & / Lemon. Apple, mango, pine, cherry.”