Broken homophone
“Here, [take/trick] all of the things I can’t [brandish/burnish],”
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Legacy Suite #1
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 first interview, I.S. Jones speaks with Tunisian-American poet Leila Chatti about the governing principles of her debut, Deluge (Copper Canyon Press, 2020).
wormhole: magic that swallows and spits
By jj peña
“maybe / the gnawing & / chomping / we will go through / will be our loved ones / greeting us / on the other side”
Knee Length #8
By Khalisa Rae
In Knee Length, poet and journalist Khalisa Rae navigates the nuances of an inherited conservative legacy. Pulling from memories of her religious upbringing and education, family history, and matrilineal teachings, Knee Length is a history reimagined and excavated—a rebellious relearning of desire and respectability, family and faith.
Pored Rijeke Brke (By the Brka River)
“to, just for a moment, / inhale the air of this earth / and feel how the juice / from the orange wets our hands”
cyclical city
“their demands; our chants / oneiric & guttural — we protest / a faceless nation & call her a mother.”
Remote Work
“Sunlight on the elms, laughter / out of season: The work of love is done / remotely, a quantum entanglement / of limbs.”
Poetry We Admire: Black Voices
“This Black history month, we return to poems from our archives, poems we love, poems that have changed us, poems we think about all the time.”
Blue
By Sara Henning
“I date a boy named Elijah, Hebrew for my God…From him, I learn that heat is a measure of disorder.”