All my heroes wear bonnets
“this here a full grown fro, a theatrical thickness, this a untameable tangle / this stuff is molasses”
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Poetry We Admire: Care Work
This July, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates a selection of poems about care work.
Enchanted is a Word for Haunted
“On all sides of the fishing pond, a maw. A clearing of the throat. A clear sky.”
If These Covers Could Talk #6
In If These Covers Could Talk, poets interview the visual artists whose works grace their book covers. The result is an engaging discussion of process, vision, and projects. This series is a celebration of collaboration—here, we champion the fruitful conversations taking place both on and behind the cover.
This month, poet Mira Rosenthal talked to editorial director Alex Wolfe about the cover of Territorial (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022).
The Reproductive Language of Colors
By Philip Jason
“The difference between the earth and the sky / is not always obvious to me.”
Legacy Suite #4
By I.S. Jones
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 Kemi Alabi about their debut full-length collection, Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2022).
I just wanted to see what it would do when I say—
From behind its aluminum dermis, / the machine transcribes the living, / studying the sound a muscle makes skipped / across roof of mouth.
CNN’s correspondent thinks afghani means Afghan
By Liala Zaray
“My afghanis are quietly pressed into palms and secretly traded / When ready for purchase, I place my afghanis face side up”
Theodicy
“About our bodies, strangers in white / deliver the news; in some places, the only option / is the option Mary had.”