Kim Harvey is a bi poet, public servant, and proud dog mom from Richmond, Virginia who currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is an Associate Editor for Palette Poetry and an alumni of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, 3Elements Review, Wraparound South, Typishly, Poets Reading the News and Barren Magazine. She was awarded 2nd Prize in the Comstock Review’s 2017 Muriel Craft Bailey Poetry Contest and received Special Merit in 2018. Most recently, she was awarded 3rd Prize in the 2019 Barren Press Poetry Contest.
By Kim Harvey
This month we feature poems from Parentheses Journal, SWWIM, BOAAT Press, Poets Reading the News, The Hellebore Press, and Juke Joint Magazine. Let us share in a holiday feast of words from the grocery aisle to the roast and sautéed greens with ice cream and peach cobbler for dessert, and Reynolds-wrapped leftovers for later.
By Kim Harvey
This month’s Poetry We Admire features work published in the last quarter exploring the idea of Death in all its myriad expressions. We’ve rounded up eight of the best new poems of the season from The Nation, The Rumpus, POETRY Magazine, Kissing Dynamite, Juxtaprose Magazine, Rust + Moth, and Wraparound South.
By Kim Harvey
In the vein of Levine celebrating his blue-collar roots, for September we rounded up some terrific new poems honoring workers — bringing attention to labor of all kinds, including often forgotten or unsung labor done with little or no pay – like mothers, cider-pressers, trench-diggers, coal miners, Taco Bell drive-through workers, and poets.
By Kim Harvey
To help get us all through this swelter, our editors have scoped out some of the hottest new not-to-be-missed poems of the season. And, yes, there will be dogs.
By Kim Harvey
This July, as we ring in another Independence Day in America, we have the opportunity and the responsibility to reflect on what our country means to us, how we relate to it and to each other, and how we will shape its future. In this month’s PWA, we offer you five powerful poems with distinct and diverse viewpoints on the topic of America.
By Kim Harvey
June, we celebrate diversity & solidarity, the freedom to be who we are & love who we love. Palette’s Pride Month PWA features an exciting selection of work by queer-identified poets…