Encounter at Musée Rodin
“the scenes / of the damned reaching like hands / into the sunlight, sirens sounding–“
“the scenes / of the damned reaching like hands / into the sunlight, sirens sounding–“
By Kiyoko Reidy
“his body / possessed the lithe assurance of a man / comfortable at catastrophe’s cusp.”
By Kate Sweeney
“You cut open / my thigh each evening to practice stitching it back together.”
By Summer Farah
In Poetry Double Features, poet, critic, and editor Summer Farah moves away from the capitalistic language of “comparative titles” and instead towards the indulgence possible in considering two poetry collections that complement each other. The books paired here are not necessarily similar, but Farah asks: what language, pleasure, or wonder might be uncovered when they are read together? Poetry Double Features is in praise of the beautiful and unruly process of reading, synthesizing, and parsing out connective threads. This month, Farah considers Some Are Always Hungry by Jihyun Yun and Hijra by Hala Alyan.
“Butterflied like a fish, / she died and did not die, / rose again each time”
This May, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by AAPI poets.
“I promise / to open you like a drawer / and be surprised each time”
By Hannah Seo
“In Korean we do not say / you get older we say / you eat age / get plush with years”
This April, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by SWANA poets.