Poetry We Admire: Motherhood
By Kim Harvey
For May’s Poetry We Admire, we curated five excellent poems from around the net on the theme of mothers/motherhood.
Kim Harvey
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.
Poetry We Admire: Ars Poetica
By Kim Harvey
For April’s Poetry We Admire, we’ve picked some beauties that honor the art of poetry and what it may offer us in these uncertain times. Enjoy some incredible (mostly) new Ars Poetica from around the net.
Poetry We Admire: Lions & Lambs
By Kim Harvey
For March’s Poetry We Admire, we hunted down poems with lion and lamb imagery— poems that are, in turn, fierce and tender.
Poetry We Admire: Eros
By Kim Harvey
Time to turn up the heat on this chilly February with some Poetry We Admire on the theme of Eros— a specially selected curation of recently published poems full of sensuality, desire, and an exploration of erotic love.
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.
Poetry We Admire: Light
By Kim Harvey
For our December Poetry We Admire, we’ve curated some of the best recently published poems out there around the theme of “Light.” Let’s celebrate light-bringing poems from Salamander, Ice Floe Press, Black Bough Poetry, Raw Art Review, The Shore, and Rattle.
Poetry We Admire: Food & Family
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.
Poetry We Admire: Death
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.
Poetry We Admire: Labor
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.