A Road
By Jeff Ewing
“That along / the way we acquire and shed companions. That the sky / goes black at night and lights again in the morning–“
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.
I Refuse to Write a Poem About Body
By Nora Hikari
“I refuse to strike matches against my body, / I refuse to match my body against the years / it is owed”
Poem with Locked Box
“And to think these are our success stories: / the invention of violence / our people’s greatest innovation.”
Poetry We Admire: Erosion
I tend to get nervous faced with the impulse to begin an article by tracing etymology. To frame …
Mother of Pearl
“Mother / was not the first word in my mouth. The word was baba: / meaning, father; meaning, mouth.”
HUSBAND LIKES HER TO LEAVE FRUIT IN HER VAGINA ALL DAY SO HE CAN EAT IT LATER
“Can we ever write woman / without writing fruit? / Without food, blood-red, or cut/gash/slit / in half?”
Against Adjudication [I-II]
By Hazem Fahmy
“In another life, my / fate would be a throne of orchids, / gargantuan. Vanilla flowers would sprout wherever I walked.”
and she stepped out of the grove
By Aiya Sakr
“tell me about my birth my migration / my coming to this language not my language”
screensaver
By Huan He
“he stared into the abyss, computer monitors under the screensaver’s spell, he / kept looking, never a backward glance but ahead”