Killing the Dragon
“I prefer the forgetting / of what doesn’t beg to be / remembered: nights that know my body parts / for the way they could be anyone else’s / in the swarm.”
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Poetry We Admire: Teachers
By Kim Harvey
It’s Back to School time, whether that be in person or online this year. Palette’s Editor-in-Chief Josh and his …
Intersection #10
With Intersection, her monthly column, celebrated poet Chelsea Dingman enters a place of questions left hanging—of lyric understanding, …
The Winners and Finalists of the 2020 Sappho Prize!
We are honored to share with everyone the winners, finalists, and longlist of the 2020 Sappho Prize, selected …
Deadlines: September & October 2020
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the …
Reading natural history on a bus leaving Ottawa
By Sunny Chan
“The day I found out seabirds drink saltwater using a gland above their eyes / We celebrated the news like it was something that happened to us.”
The Afterlife
“Here, nobody / is what you’d call / deep. Mister Vroom Vroom / cruises his Vette / around the beach.”
Goatwater #1
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.