
Prayers of a Young Immigrant
By Zia Wang
“4:45 am, one more prayer before going back to sleep, thirty-three / amber tasbih beads warm between my fingers”
By Zia Wang
“4:45 am, one more prayer before going back to sleep, thirty-three / amber tasbih beads warm between my fingers”
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Most of us might not have considered entries and exit in a poetic context, but one way or the other, if we’re writing poetry, we’ve used them.
The entry: opening line or sentence of the poem.
The exit: closing line or sentence of the poem.
These two lines might feel simple or obvious, but they hold as much importance in a poem as a door holds in the purpose of a house.
“balance the worker’s wailing mother / against the motorist’s (coyote // howling in the distance)”
We are so grateful to every poet who shares their work with us—please enjoy perusing the stunning work in our poetry archive.
“the many varieties of violence, platters of soft // and blue violence, vintage violence.”
By Binh Tang
“untamed, and dusk engulfed in their eyes, / like fireworks, like burning choppers in the sky”
By Tiffany Wu
“our island’s favorite ghost is a / tower by the sea. men are afraid of the / woman in white stalking the shores, / shells uncracked and gleaming under her feet”