Lena
By Jessie Keary
“She was adept with the use of / liquid rouge, / a model of artistic beauty,”
Poetry
We are so grateful to all of our partner-poets for sharing their work with us—please enjoy their beautiful words in our Featured Poetry catalogue.
Swimming Lesson
“the familiar games you invented: / complicated, one-foot races across // the shallow end.”
Interview with Akhim Yuseff Cabey, Winner of the 2024 Rising Poet Prize
Winner of the 2024 Rising Poet Prize Akhim Yuseff Cabey for “Olentangy River, 2019” Akhim Yuseff Cabey was …
Inheritance
By Odin Meadows
“Light from the / dining room is spilling out the hole, I keep forgetting / it’s right above the dinner table.”
Olentangy River, 2019
“god bless, then, the poisonous / carp these fishermen toss // back into the river,”
Stevie Wonder boulevard
By Tamar Ashdot
“music spills out of a storefront across the street. / the space is filled with sienna subway tiled walls and sugars / in glass jars”
This Little Piggy Went to the Market
“This little piggy listens to murder podcasts while she paints her nails. // This little piggy listens to BTS and makes vegan enchiladas from scratch. // This little piggy also has nightmares about wolves.”
Prayers of a Young Immigrant
By Zia Wang
“4:45 am, one more prayer before going back to sleep, thirty-three / amber tasbih beads warm between my fingers”
Coyote Poem #2
“balance the worker’s wailing mother / against the motorist’s (coyote // howling in the distance)”