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.

Poetry We Admire: Afghan Poets

Over the course of the last month, the world has watched violence unfold at a shocking pace across …

“The ripening of our women is a legacy / of burning. We leave behind nothing / but seeds.”

“it is lonely here / in the way I imagine places without life at all are lonely – / the surface of Mars. / the Moon’s ridges.”

“I / turn over a vase & find my name. I round / a corner & the table has vanished. I shake / a teapot & the missing rings appear in my / mouth.”

“A god we could not touch touched / our bodies & we became like light.”

“Water is intelligent. // It knows the fluid difference between tenderness and harm”

“as a son introduced to sin, i poison / that which bears fruit, sweet / and bruised.”

“sometimes i think of God while washing my feet / i think of where i have not walked my longing / to go further”

This August’s Poetry We Admire comes on the heels of a month which saw the release of the …