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.

Quite Contrary

“Fields like bodies: / milk-need blooms wrapped in choke weed, / ash borne roots & children, children.”

“Can you use a compass to tell the time? What about a dictionary?”

“the scenes / of the damned reaching like hands / into the sunlight, sirens sounding–“

“his body / possessed the lithe assurance of a man / comfortable at catastrophe’s cusp.”

“You cut open / my thigh each evening to practice stitching it back together.”

“Butterflied like a fish, / she died and did not die, / rose again each time”

This May, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by AAPI poets.

“I promise / to open you like a drawer / and be surprised each time”

“In Korean we do not say / you get older we say / you eat age / get plush with years”