Restoration
“Goldmanite, / use what seeds you can to drape / this mountain in clouds, Muses / in the forest”
“Goldmanite, / use what seeds you can to drape / this mountain in clouds, Muses / in the forest”
By Maria Nazos
“how the body’s slow melting / is the only way / to open a hardened heart / the glacier you enter with dissolving”
By Emily Lawson
“but you held me down, just like this, / possessed, alien, godlike, looking at me, outside of / time—”
“I look down / at the skew-whiff knobs / of my fingers, each wonky digit sprawled / out toward their stubborn / destinations”
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2021 Love & Eros Prize! Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Kaveh Akbar.
“we studied flight patterns in endless, borderless skies / the way travelers study maps.”
By Alan Chazaro
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. If These Covers Could Talk is a celebration of collaboration—here, we champion the fruitful conversations taking place both on and behind the cover.
“all alone & darkening, the lens / is nothing without its ambient light”
“Anna Atkins, rock climbing videos, victims of expectation.”