The Sound of Listening
“shame / is just another word for refusing to burn / down the palace”
Pharyngeal Cartography
“I recited the what for you / The wallpaper, peristaltic, listened & interred”
Brown Study
By Jane Zwart
“these studies are stirred / from other colors. The leaf turns / brown because it has been green / and gold and red.”
The Guest #24
By Robin Myers
In The Guest, poet and literary translator Robin Myers explores poetry translation as process, practice, vocation, meditation, and craft. Drawing both on her own projects-in-progress and the work of other translators, The Guest is a kind of diary, a thinking-out-loud about the pleasures, challenges, and decisions required—and invited—by bringing poems into another language. To do them justice and to make them new.
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.
The Autobiography of Anne Boleyn
“I dwell inside / the eye of your brain, the word on the page: me, / split for anyone to try.”
Partition Homes
How many words do I / know for hunger? What is the nestling space /
between two countries / of conflict called?
If These Covers Could Talk #3
In If These Covers Could Talk, poets interview the visual artists whose works grace their book covers. The result is an engaging discussion of process, vision, and projects. This series is a celebration of collaboration—here, we champion the fruitful conversations taking place both on and behind the cover.
This month, poet Antonio de Jesús Lopez spoke to artist Anthony Solorzano about the cover of Gentefication (Four Way Books, 2021).