Requiem for an Ocean Burial
“Your life amounted to saving cent / seven as you lost yours. Bare ruined choirs / sing to you now in your blistering senescence.”
The Bird Born Out of Weather
By Al Maginnes
“And though he knows / five languages and a thousand names for God, he walks // to the edge of the settlement, listening again for the silver bird”
Community Feedback: James McCormick reads Ananya Kumar-Banerjee
Community Feedback is our recurring column that provides an opportunity for our audience to get some quick, free & exceptional feedback on a new poem. Submit your poem here. This month’s guest editor is James Scannell McCormick.
Extinction
“In your arms I open / like a wound, // slacken into / chemical grace.”
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.
Talking Craft with Matthew Zapruder, Author of Why Poetry
Why Poetry was released in 2017 and has remained since a passionate and plain spoken blueprint for both …
A Meaningful Poem
“My partner has left robust exercise / I lend my hand to tend this poem / What makes a poem meaningful”
Periodic #4
By Franny Choi
“Periodic” is a monthly column by poet Franny Choi. Every month, she writes a short column on the first day of her period—a check-in that might cover issues of gender, queerness, writing, health, and/or love.