For a long time
for a long time I think about isolated things like neighbors
Poetry We Admire: Body
By Kim Harvey
It seems nearly everyone is craving something they’ve given up, so for our January Poetry We Admire, Palette offers you some delicious, nutritious, calorie-free poetry—specifically our own little “best of” collection of recently published poems around the net on theme of Body.
The Language of Water
By Lee Peterson
“We cannot talk about refugees and not / talk about war or water. About the breath / into and out of the mouth and how this is union.”
Asking Why, Watching the Manta Ray Ballet at the Aquarium of the Americas
By Tobias Wray
“The stories we tell ourselves / leap and fall like fish into air, // back into the water—its quick / lip. Traffic happens by.”
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.
Intersection #2
With Intersection, her monthly column, celebrated poet Chelsea Dingman enters a place of questions left hanging—of lyric understanding, of addiction, and womanhood, and politics, and death.
After Frida Kahlo’s Sin Esperanza & the Crohn’s Diagnosis
“wheeled in on a bed three times her size. / A bouquet of rotting meats, / organs, & calaveras ensconced / between her lips.”
Deadlines: December & January
Every 15th of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the world. The next six weeks include: … , & more.