Periodic #1
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.
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Two Poems
“the blight it takes to crack / into a redflesh, juice splatter / at the neck and breast, thickthroated / with pulp”
The 2019 Palette Poetry Prize Is Now Open!
We are so excited to announce this year’s judge for the Palette Poetry Prize ($4000 + Publications) is the amazing poet, educator and community leader, Edward Hirsch!
Poetry Deadlines: February & March
Every 15th of the month, new deadlines, new contests, new opportunities for your voice to find the world.
The Poet to the Nun
By Anna Elkins
“In my language, earth / is an anagram for heart / (& angels glean / integrals & triangles / & lighted delight.)”
Poetry We Admire: Love
For February’s PWA, our editors seek out poems that examine all the best, and the worst, of Love.
After a Line by Montaigne
By Karen Rigby
“A throat holds as much song as you let it. / The span between a bird’s wings the same as a fist.”
Self-Portrait in Lieu of My EP
“It’s like that very first taste of hypocrisy, like that fetal position we practice and fittingly forget when the speakers pick me up with my filth”
In Response to My Mother When She Says Hearing Me Read My Writing’s like Hearing God
“God // cannot be remission, the clear scan, a bell’s clang after my / last treatment.”