Poetry We Admire: Transition
Palette is back with another Poetry We Admire for May—curated by a new editor!
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Winners and Finalists of the 2021 Previously Published Prize
We are honored to share with everyone the winners, finalists, and longlist of the 2021 Previously Published Prize, our multimedia contest!
the selkie waits another night
“down at the shore the waves / are begging to freeze, are locking into each other / and breaking away again, are holding, holding, / and then letting go. i put my fingers in your mouth.”
Goatwater #9
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.
Introducing Our New Editor
We’re excited to introduce the new Editor-in-Chief of Palette Poetry: Sarah Ghazal Ali!
The fall
“Perhaps, we live just in these / Boundless resources hedging / Us to an end no matter where / We’re standing,”
Turn Over
“Perhaps he ached to refresh / his smart phone screen to see numbers creep, / a few hundred at a time, as much care as a single vote / could ever endure, in this country counted by counties.”
The Love of Dusk
By Satya Dash
“My mother believes / in the holiness of tides. Till today, she reminds me to have my food / well before an eclipse begins. She knows, the sun doesn’t care and the moon / pretends to.”
For the Boy I Wanted, Fifty Years Ago, To Take to the Senior Prom
“This week your throat has refused to swallow / any of your favorites we tempt it with – / Black Bing cherries, Pemaquid oysters, minced papaya.”