[sand sultan]
“Here are gates with welcoming arms, drapes, gardens // that are all swings and slides.”
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.
Ars Poetica: 13
By Shutta Crum
“in the tree are three buds / one will flower into a poem / eat the other two”
Mother
By Rongfei Mu
“But I know you’re listening, / From the pale blue waves on the monitor / That I ride.”
“Maria’s Jawbone” and “Declaration from the Hopyard”
By Karla Yaritza Maravilla Zaragoza
Two poems by Karla Yaritza Maravilla Zaragoza.
“it began with silk / devils bleaching brown kernels and selling bottled ice / tea”
PHYLLODES REVERIES
“My motorcycle’s thrum as much the music / as bees in the embattled thistledown, the wild // stonefruits erupting from mouthed cores”
Gargoyle
By JC Andrews
“I ask you to marry / me there and pretend / my name is Joshua.”
Master of the Female Half-Lengths
“the women’s heart-shaped / faces like pale evenings cracked / with elegant longing for assignations.”
Orienteering (Summer, 1994)
By Sarah Carey
“In my 30s, I seek // and scan. A broadcast warns / of thunderstorms on the horizon”
Goldfish Memory
By Holly Zhou
“I bubbled at the mouth. / But you kept me safe, kept my glass clean. / Close.”