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Layaway
“it is lonely here / in the way I imagine places without life at all are lonely – / the surface of Mars. / the Moon’s ridges.”
Lost Things
By Emily Zogbi
“I / turn over a vase & find my name. I round / a corner & the table has vanished. I shake / a teapot & the missing rings appear in my / mouth.”
A God We Could Not Touch
By Lane Fields
“A god we could not touch touched / our bodies & we became like light.”
Tender Ship
“Water is intelligent. // It knows the fluid difference between tenderness and harm”
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.
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”