A hundred-mile breath
“My mouth a messy mountain, a land- / mass of round-backed sounds, a bulge / of bleeding ballads.”
An Eagle’s Wing, the Leg of a Deer
“The pizza burns. Your poem gets published / in the New Yorker. No one reads it. / Everyone reads it. You eat the pizza.”
Community Feedback: Elegy for a Mother Who Died Alone by Louisa Muniz
Community Feedback is our recurring column that provides an opportunity for our audience to get some quick, free …
Land Line
“A man is licking my house. / An ordinary man. / Do I need to do something about it.”
Featured 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.
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.
Night Windows 1928 & Silbers Pharmacy
“A perfect place for Hopper to window // shop, then move on, never to enter, never / to seek out Silber or his ghostly, gassy patrons.”