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.

Broken homophone

“Here, [take/trick] all of the things I can’t [brandish/burnish],”

“maybe / the gnawing & / chomping / we will go through / will be our loved ones / greeting us / on the other side”

“to, just for a moment, / inhale the air of this earth / and feel how the juice / from the orange wets our hands”

“their demands; our chants / oneiric & guttural — we protest / a faceless nation & call her a mother.”

“Sunlight on the elms, laughter / out of season: The work of love is done / remotely, a quantum entanglement / of limbs.”

“This Black history month, we return to poems from our archives, poems we love, poems that have changed us, poems we think about all the time.”

“I date a boy named Elijah, Hebrew for my God…From him, I learn that heat is a measure of disorder.”

“Goldmanite, / use what seeds you can to drape / this mountain in clouds, Muses / in the forest”

“how the body’s slow melting / is the only way / to open a hardened heart / the glacier you enter with dissolving”