Dirge
By Frank Paino
“I have seen monks burning / in their saffron robes for days, / coaxing sand from throats / of silver”
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Home Sick
By Neil Flatman
“Twilight. Watch trees on the near shore. / A tug boat chuckles at a private joke; / white furrow through the jade”
Community Feedback: Caits Meissner reads “Miss Bradshaw” by Ellen Birkett Morris
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 Caits Meissner.
Acolyte Theater
“O animal, held / at tongue-point // I always cried during / mass, dreaming of dirt // & hands made / useful”
Pocho Boy #3
By Alan Chazaro
“Pocho Boy Meets World” is a Latinx poetry column written by California poet, Alan Chazaro. Join him as he eats his share of quesadillas and uses broken Spanish in hopes of connecting more deeply with what it means to be a U.S. Latinx writer in Latin America.
Periodic #9
By Franny Choi
“Periodic #9” is Franny Choi’s final essay for the column. For the past nine months, she wrote a short column on the first day of her period (or tried to)—a check-in that covered issues of gender, queerness, writing, health, and/or love.
Deadlines: October & November
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 Previously Published Poem Prize, Rattle, Tulane Review, Joy Harjo Prize, Frontier’s 2020 Fellowship, Pork Belly Press, & more.
Diagnosis: a Still Life
“A cigarette burn on a bathing nude. / A raven under palm fronds. / What we call a bruise as if / fruit could heal.”