Poetry We Admire: Family
The holiday season is here, the family season is here. This time of year can be joyful, but …
Poetry We Admire
Poetry We Admire: Fear
That time of year has arrived where we all deliberately engage with fear—communal, familial grappling with death and nightmare. For October’s PWA, our editors sought out poems that speak to such engagement, that wrestle with violence like Leila Chatti’s “After Reading…”, or consummate the scary stories we tell ourselves like Justin Phillip Reed’s “Ruthless”, or explore the paradox thrumming between pleasure and fear like Emmalee Hagarman “Our Most Cherished Terrors”.
Poetry We Admire: Rejections
With last month’s #shareyourrejection trend on Twitter, we set out to collect some of the best, most recent work centering on the theme of rejection.
Poetry We Admire: Burning
At Palette Poetry, we love work that burns. Poems that burble over in anger. Poems burning up in desire and ecstasy. Language that holds us hostage with burning questions.
Poetry We Admire: Revolution
Each poet writes toward their own revolution. At this time, unfortunately, there are many revolutions to write towards. …
Poetry We Admire: Summer
This summer, my wife and I relocated to Seattle. Our first night exploring the city, we attended Paige …
Poetry We Admire: Motherhood
For May & Mother’s Day, we looked for poems published recently that speak to the theme of motherhood. …
Poetry We Admire: New Beginnings
For this month, we looked for poems published recently that speak to the theme of new beginnings. These …