Poetry We Admire: Form
I had not been seventeen so long when Patter was published and Douglas Kearney came to town. In …
Benjamin Bartu
Benjamin Bartu is a high school teacher, poet, & writer. He is the winner of the Blood Orange Review’s inaugural poetry contest. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, The Shore Poetry, The Tahoma Literary Review, Tilde, & elsewhere. An Associate Editor at Palette Poetry, he can be found on twitter @alampnamedben.
Poetry We Admire: Erosion
I tend to get nervous faced with the impulse to begin an article by tracing etymology. To frame …
Poetry We Admire: Afghan Poets
Over the course of the last month, the world has watched violence unfold at a shocking pace across …
Poetry We Admire: Tipping Points
This August’s Poetry We Admire comes on the heels of a month which saw the release of the …
Poetry We Admire: The Body
This June, Palette’s Poetry We Admire column looks at four recent poems which all engage with the theme of The Body, a site of growth, of memory, of loss and beginning, of wishes granted, left, or half-fulfilled.
Poetry We Admire: The Truth
This month, we admire and celebrate the work and words of Black poets.
Embodied Experience: An Interview With Sandra Faulkner
I thought there were things we created to survive us, and somewhere else the things we created to survive. Poetic inquiry has shown me the two are indistinct.
Featured Favorites of 2019
These past few weeks, with their own wild and discordant sense of time, have felt like an invitation to reflect, to look back and find the good. We asked our readers to identify some of their favorites from the Featured Poetry we published in 2019.