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.

Mass Bouquet

“like bees we are easily agitated / until we too idly gaze at the carefully organized skeletons”

“if the plastic island in the pacific / were actually an island / i would live there / with you.”

“Do I count i I’ve never spoken wish / into the lory hole?”

This October, our team has curated poems with Hybrid forms, selected by Ben Bartu.

“we will spend the rest of our lives aching for wholeness— / the two of us together & each of us alone.”

“Some might say I’m reaching, but that’s what metaphors do. / But inside them, there’s always a feather of truth.”

“Some might say I’m reaching, but that’s what metaphors do. / But inside them, there’s always a feather of truth.”

“In her halo of blood, / who knows whether she had time to beg?”

“An incense of rain. Cursed by what we see, / we gaze right on in.”