Winners of the 2021 Sappho Prize
We are honored to share with everyone the winners, finalists, and longlist of the 2021 Sappho Prize for Women Poets! This year’s winners were selected by Maggie Smith.
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Finalists for the 2021 Sappho Prize
We are honored to share with everyone the finalists and longlist of the 2021 Sappho Prize for Women Poets! Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets.
prayer from a new jersey jail cell
By Paxton Grey
“as a son introduced to sin, i poison / that which bears fruit, sweet / and bruised.”
on devotion
“sometimes i think of God while washing my feet / i think of where i have not walked my longing / to go further”
Poetry We Admire: Tipping Points
This August’s Poetry We Admire comes on the heels of a month which saw the release of the …
Still Life
“Easily, the dead are the wittiest among us, and you among them, lying there that evening, so peaceful, as though only just resting.”
Knee Length #2
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.
The Future at My Father’s Feet
By Sara Elkamel
“Some say on the night of its flowering, a corpse flower will smell like it’s dying. It’s a good thing I’m good, and not flowering.”
Not Everything is Linear, but We are Still Done
“I hold hate in my heart, a hearth. / My hands, kindling.”