COUNTERPETITIONER’S SUPPORTING AFFIDAVIT
By Starr Davis
“I CERTIFY / I built a life on the run from the broken law of my body”
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.
Instructions on Breastfeeding
By Dorsey Craft
“This is a way / of forgiving. This is a way of killing the moon.”
Confessional
“the leering eye, the doting eye, / the eye wet with love.”
To Christina, with Carrier Pigeons
By Mary Byrnes
“What if / you try to imagine this–a sky mottled with birds, a gray-winged static eclipse”
Learning English in the Margins of the Masters
“What is the sound of a throat when it sings? / What is the wound of a throat when it singes?”
Noumenon
By Cindy King
“A blue light becoming, or a wind / unlike anything outside.”
Poetry We Admire: Latinx Poets
This September, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by Latinx poets.
Before That
“Before wishes they were trees. / Three flat rooted pines under her breath,”
THE HARBINGER
“In every dim stroke of lightning I saw the touch / of your hand,”