Self-Portrait with Ouija Board
“In absence, everything / becomes legible. A planchette drifts / over my left eye.”
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With Scraps We Made Sacred Food
“don’t talk to me / about spirit animals, but yes we are / boys with wings.”
Untitled Duck Poem
By Sanna Wani & Manahil Bandukwala
“This poem loves learning. This poem loves wandering, like two ducks or a river.”
Tongues
“These days / I am more afraid of questions than I am / of answers. No resolution.”
Deadlines: August & September
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 August or September, including Palette’s Chapbook Prize, the Nature & Place Prize, the Brett Elizabeth Jenkins Poetry Prize, Hedgebrook, and more.
THE POST-OFFICE IS AN OPEN FLOWER
“Our separate lives hold between them / a weeping floodplain”
Poetry We Admire: Harmony
This August, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems of Harmony.
Full Moon in Cancer
By Hannah Smith
“as if I might fall back / into my own mother’s womb, / in the time before I slipped / into waning moonlight”
Legacy Suite #5
The Legacy Suite is a three-part interview series in which poets delve into the tumultuous journey of publishing a debut full-length collection: before publication, during, and after. For this interview, I.S. Jones spoke with poet Saddiq Dzukogi about loss, hope, & the page as a place of possibility.