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.

Self-Portrait in Lust

I vulture myself when I touch you, /
my stomach its own feast, my tongue a prayer for a tongue.

There are so many gods wanting my soreness. / I can bruise my forehead bowing before so many statues.

“lately I no longer want to know the lineage of this body, its cruel / names, its lonely machine,”

“This National Poetry Month, we turn to poems of Dedication, written for, written after.”

“the gun untouchable / the wound her eyes / the wound her squint / the wound her death”

“my people are too tired of being killed / to give two shits about lexicons.”

“This March, we reflect on the work of Ukrainian poets, and what resistance means in poetry.”

“i am an enemy of dust / I am an amalgamation of everyone i have ever loved”

“there’s power / in obtaining / obedience / of a language / that was once / command.”