Periodic #3
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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Deadlines: April & May
Every 15th of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the world. The next six weeks include: our own Palette Poetry Prize (closes today!), the Idyllwild Fellowship, the BOAAT Chapbook Prize, Prairie Schooner and more.
Ghazal of the Flesh
“God, or a cell clot rooting in her walls: so I became this flesh.”
Last Day to Submit to the 2019 Palette Poetry Prize!
Last day to submit to our 2019 Palette Poetry Prize: $4000 for a single poem! Judged by Edward HIrsch.
“Right on the Other Side of My Fury:” a review of The Tradition by Jericho Brown
One might read The Tradition in any of a number of ways: as handbook of craft, as creed, as as platform, as statement of aesthetic, as all of these, and yet more than all of these together. What is important, though, is that one read it, and read it again.
Poetry We Admire: Cruelty
Here are four new poems we admire hitting magazines that speak to the vastness of cruelty, featuring work from Eloisa Emezcua in POETRY, George Abraham in Mizna, Aria Aber in The Adroit Journal, Stevie Edwards in The Journal.
at the border
“your legs may want to forget the name of this place, forget / how you rolled into it and swallowed its rain.”
Ode to Rainfall
“Like the skin / I tongued at the throat’s hollow— / that morning salt my favorite flavor.”
Becoming Poet: Cornelius Eady
We’re honored to have had the chance to chat with the talented poet Cornelius Eady—here’s what he has to say about his journey of becoming poet.