Poetry We Admire: Form
I had not been seventeen so long when Patter was published and Douglas Kearney came to town. In …
I had not been seventeen so long when Patter was published and Douglas Kearney came to town. In …
“The topology of your hands / maps your mother’s wounds, withstands / the force against cheeks, flushed.”
By Len Lawson
“The eyes of injustice strike deep as a bullet. The eyes of a revolutionary strike deeper through eternity.”
“A is antecedent, anterior, the abscess from which all else / arises. The atrocity in the attic, but also the attic’s architecture.”
By Katie Hale
“There was ugliness, too, in the gallery, though the audioguide / steered me meticulously away.”
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2021 Palette Poetry Prize! Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Jericho Brown.
By April Lim
“Hands pulsing, demands I eat / myself golden, the gentlest curves of mango, / she still carves me.”
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.
By Jeff Ewing
“That along / the way we acquire and shed companions. That the sky / goes black at night and lights again in the morning–“