Fig
By Dani Janae
“A fig without its juice is just / the waist of a woman, honey / butter.”
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: Summer
This summer, my wife and I relocated to Seattle. Our first night exploring the city, we attended Paige …
I let them take it all, didn’t I?
By Bill Neumire
“My purpose plurals, / purls into many mirrors.”
A Body in a Room
“A body flooded in night light, a room whispering.
A body until it had no more thoughts, utterly a body.
A room very long and very deep. A body of soft striped light.”
Your Girlfriend in 30 Parts
“you return on your knees, the flowers / I bloom from the soil of my belly alive, / blossoming blue and / billowing from the fold of your mouth.”
Poetry We Admire: Motherhood
For May & Mother’s Day, we looked for poems published recently that speak to the theme of motherhood. …
MEAT
By Ananda Lima
“In the red light of late / afternoon I stand clean / and naked in the / post / shower fog”
Elegy Pantoum
By Dean Rader
“I don’t want to be the blood on the blade, / but the world is a walking war, / and every inch of air is a wound.”
Difference
“I don’t believe in division; as I lay / on the sofa, my shrink says I project a / desperate need for harmony and I say / no shit, Sherlock”