Belief
By Rana Tahir
“when the athan breaks across the sky / the seas come back to pray. I will / believe most things easily.”
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2022 Emerging Poet Prize: Winners & Finalists
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2022 Emerging Poet Prize! Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Safia Elhillo.
AN OFF-ISLAND CHAMORU LISTENS TO “BENTE UNO YU’ GI PRESU” BY MARIANAS HOMEGROWN AND WRITES ABOUT GUILT
By Sydney Blas
“Our bodies were latte stones, pillaring and holding their weight against what felt like a push towards home.”
Aubade with Hope
“River, river– / lift up your roaring tongue to heaven, / swear you do not have my mother / in your belly.”
Poetry We Admire: Pride
This June, Benjamin Bartu spotlights four poems for Pride Month.
filipina cast as kneeling animal
By Louie Leyson
“here, words for woman depend / on the body’s proximity / to dusk, which is not the opposite / of light but its refraction.”
If These Covers Could Talk #5
By Anthony Cody
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 Anthony Cody talked to artist Josue Rojas about the cover of Borderland Apocrypha (Omnidawn, 2020).
Deadlines: June and July
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your work to find its audience. Here is a roundup of submission opportunities with deadlines in June or July, including Palette’s Sappho Prize, the Manuscript Revision Lab, and more.
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By Maya Kikuchi
“prioritize chaos on high / knees and kicked butts. / essentialize oil and free / fats.”