The Peasantry
By Weijia Pan
“I could read history from the back of your reddened skull. / You could read me directly, reflected in the eyes of passers-by.”
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2024 Previously Published Poem Prize: Winners & Finalists
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2024 Previously Published Poem Prize! Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Palette editors.
The Other Mothers
“My body reached its logical conclusion, red blood / over white feathers.”
a bird-riding grief
“a tabernacle, where memories (a) constellate, (b) dispel, tweeting for (a) healings, (b) witherings from their gods—”
Deadlines: June & July 2024
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of ten submission opportunities with deadlines in the next two months.
The Word that Burns on the Tongue
By G.R. Kramer
“Have I not seen how its star fire / lavishes itself into every corner, peers / into the guiltiest chamber of our hearts?”
A Celebrity Couple Divorces On TV
“The couple looks on, a pair of eyes / melting like discarded chocolate, // furtive.”
Ortolan, Drowning
“Something low and feathery // would rise from his throat as / if he had choked on a bird and that bird”