Requiem for an Ocean Burial
“Your life amounted to saving cent / seven as you lost yours. Bare ruined choirs / sing to you now in your blistering senescence.”
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Poetry We Admire: Pride
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…
Periodic #5
By Franny Choi
“Periodic” is a monthly column by poet Franny Choi. Every month, she writes a short column on the first day of her period—a check-in that might cover issues of gender, queerness, writing, health, and/or love.
Husband is The Loveliest Word
“From your fingers, / the salt was a blessing. I had to take / my shirt off.”
The Bird Born Out of Weather
By Al Maginnes
“And though he knows / five languages and a thousand names for God, he walks // to the edge of the settlement, listening again for the silver bird”
Community Feedback: James McCormick reads Ananya Kumar-Banerjee
Community Feedback is our recurring column that provides an opportunity for our audience to get some quick, free & exceptional feedback on a new poem. Submit your poem here. This month’s guest editor is James Scannell McCormick.
Extinction
“In your arms I open / like a wound, // slacken into / chemical grace.”
Talking Craft with Matthew Zapruder, Author of Why Poetry
Why Poetry was released in 2017 and has remained since a passionate and plain spoken blueprint for both …
A Meaningful Poem
“My partner has left robust exercise / I lend my hand to tend this poem / What makes a poem meaningful”