You Handed Me a Loaded Gun
“The cans with exit wounds // made of summer and twisted aluminum. Sky the color of aluminum, / bright body ready to tread its knots.”
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The Guest #20
By Robin Myers
In The Guest, poet and literary translator Robin Myers explores poetry translation as process, practice, vocation, meditation, and craft. Drawing both on her own projects-in-progress and the work of other translators, The Guest is a kind of diary, a thinking-out-loud about the pleasures, challenges, and decisions required—and invited—by bringing poems into another language. To do them justice and to make them new.
Poetry We Admire: Form
I had not been seventeen so long when Patter was published and Douglas Kearney came to town. In …
Triolet in E-Flat Major
“The topology of your hands / maps your mother’s wounds, withstands / the force against cheeks, flushed.”
Hypotenuse
By Len Lawson
“The eyes of injustice strike deep as a bullet. The eyes of a revolutionary strike deeper through eternity.”
A
“A is antecedent, anterior, the abscess from which all else / arises. The atrocity in the attic, but also the attic’s architecture.”
The Gallery of America
By Katie Hale
“There was ugliness, too, in the gallery, though the audioguide / steered me meticulously away.”
Winners & Finalists for the 2021 Palette Poetry Prize
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2021 Palette Poetry Prize! Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Jericho Brown.
Year of the Gilded Pig
By April Lim
“Hands pulsing, demands I eat / myself golden, the gentlest curves of mango, / she still carves me.”