screensaver
By Huan He
“he stared into the abyss, computer monitors under the screensaver’s spell, he / kept looking, never a backward glance but ahead”
Look
By Yi Wei
“The ripening of our women is a legacy / of burning. We leave behind nothing / but seeds.”
Layaway
“it is lonely here / in the way I imagine places without life at all are lonely – / the surface of Mars. / the Moon’s ridges.”
Lost Things
By Emily Zogbi
“I / turn over a vase & find my name. I round / a corner & the table has vanished. I shake / a teapot & the missing rings appear in my / mouth.”
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.
A God We Could Not Touch
By Lane Fields
“A god we could not touch touched / our bodies & we became like light.”
Tender Ship
“Water is intelligent. // It knows the fluid difference between tenderness and harm”
Winners of the 2021 Sappho Prize
We are honored to share with everyone the winners, finalists, and longlist of the 2021 Sappho Prize for Women Poets! This year’s winners were selected by Maggie Smith.