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.
By Kim Harvey
This July, as we ring in another Independence Day in America, we have the opportunity and the responsibility to reflect on what our country means to us, how we relate to it and to each other, and how we will shape its future. In this month’s PWA, we offer you five powerful poems with distinct and diverse viewpoints on the topic of America.
“no country plants innocence / in its daughters we are fertile / for droughts”
By Rainie Oet
“My hands are open—the worm points straight up, / drops of its blood rising one at a time.”
By Jai Bashir
“In the rain, we circle around like dogs / who can’t find sleep, we carve the dark // out of plums, purple as an uncurled thumb”
“Your life amounted to saving cent / seven as you lost yours. Bare ruined choirs / sing to you now in your blistering senescence.”
By Kim Harvey
June, we celebrate diversity & solidarity, the freedom to be who we are & love who we love. Palette’s Pride Month PWA features an exciting selection of work by queer-identified poets…
“From your fingers, / the salt was a blessing. I had to take / my shirt off.”
By Al Maginnes
“And though he knows / five languages and a thousand names for God, he walks // to the edge of the settlement, listening again for the silver bird”
“In your arms I open / like a wound, // slacken into / chemical grace.”