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.

Poet Wrestling with the Blood Hooves

“Contagions. {As you}. I’ve crushed beneath / these blood hooves. Sodden-electrical sting. Touch me”

For this month, we looked for poems published recently that speak to the theme of new beginnings. These …

“I don’t know if there is a smaller life / to hope for. A river / passing the house. The fish / floating in the pit
of its belly”

“I am tired. I want to be / worthy of an alternative undoing / to which I might surrender—”

“his words suave like jazz / musica his grinning keys / leaving us trembling with sparks / of enlightenment”

“Your kids. / Have you willed // them your rage? / Will their brains / bleed? Will they?”

“Surgeons, / like poets, brook no ideas but in things.”

“Pitched past pangs of panic, my middle finger / is extended for eternity.”