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.

City Birds

“Like the road / and the crows / I too am addicted / to seeing more”

This January, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems around the theme of Field Guides.

“tell me of the hundred eyes / howling at the small moon / of your heel. each hurricane / you set in a man’s chest.”

“I have decided to be happy in spite of everything that came before, and because of it.”

“in the park, as the baby bird wanders the ground, crying, / the engine of a boy’s curiosity makes him crouch”

“Tomorrow, it will be today again, / whole lives tucked between / the words is & was.”

This December, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems and writes about the Migration of Dreams.

“I feared pain / but hoped each hit might knock more pink / out of my gut, stain me truer blue.”

“and we admit / invention is not / a sound description / of language: found, / maybe, or sorted–“