A Meaningful Poem
“My partner has left robust exercise / I lend my hand to tend this poem / What makes a poem meaningful”
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.
Mantra to protect all children
“this is a mantra to protect tiny breathing holes / stopped by the spittle and mucus of a kiss, / for birdcage ribs of meerschaum against the press / and squeeze of bones”
Poetry We Admire: Motherhood
The declared cruelest month, National Poetry Month, has arrived. Here are four new poems we admire hitting magazines that speak to the vastness of cruelty, featuring work from Golden in The Offing, Mary Morris in Thrush Poetry Journal, Hieu Minh Nguyen in Poetry, and Dilruba Ahmed in NER.
No Brackets on my Tongue
“Why you (wan’) me speak / like your Queen when I / have my own monarchy?”
Daybreak Through the Cottage Window
“And so it begins: this greige gleam and economy, / this singular, smooth, silent, sweep. // A pearled page turning in a tome of darkness.”
Ghazal of the Flesh
“God, or a cell clot rooting in her walls: so I became this flesh.”
Poetry We Admire: Cruelty
Here are four new poems we admire hitting magazines that speak to the vastness of cruelty, featuring work from Eloisa Amezcua in POETRY, George Abraham in Mizna, Aria Aber in The Adroit Journal, Stevie Edwards in The Journal.
at the border
“your legs may want to forget the name of this place, forget / how you rolled into it and swallowed its rain.”
Ode to Rainfall
“Like the skin / I tongued at the throat’s hollow— / that morning salt my favorite flavor.”