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“For a long time, I tried to peel off God / like a wet swimsuit”

Contest Winner, Note From the Editors

Winners and Finalists of the 2020 Brush & Lyre Prize!

By Palette Poetry

We are honored to share with everyone the winners, finalists, and longlist of the 2020 Brush & Lyre …

Poetry

Some women in my country are taking the fate of rivers

By Sneha Subramanian Kanta

“Our women pray with relentless / voices for rain to join tributaries. // They hold an ignition of obituaries / on their laps.”

Tiffany Osedra Miller's Goatwater

Goatwater #6

By Tiffany Osedra Miller

Goatwater is a column which explores the mystifying, joyous and liberating concept of Carnival through the New York born and raised, Caribbean-American perspective of poet and artist Tiffany Osedra Miller.

Poetry

You, An Apocalypse Survivor, Lie in the Grass to Watch a Comet

By Gordon Smith

“How many years since you’ve been touched; eight? Nine?

Poetry

I’ve Been Flipping the Pages of Your Quran

By Shereen Akhtar

“I’ve been flipping the pages of your Quran / so it looks like you’ve been reading in bed. / I read it too, under the tree that got so hot / we used to hose it down in the summer.”

Chelsea Dingman's Intersection

Intersection #14

By Chelsea Dingman

With Intersection, her monthly column, celebrated poet Chelsea Dingman enters a place of questions left hanging—of lyric understanding, of addiction, and womanhood, and politics, and death.