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Post Immigration Pastoral
“Do you // remember his steady hands? / How badly we wanted to love, in him, // some unliftable part of ourselves?”
The place in another universe teaching us our lost adolescence in a new alphabet
“In another part of you, the / damn-near-room-sized / loom, in another, us singing / Madonna acoustic just / because.”
Intersection #9
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.
Self-Portrait: Bullet, Prayer, Teeth
“The world wants us to see this– / girl in the ground. Girl / in the gutter — lover, lamplight // sifting through gum trees.”
Deadlines: August & September
Every middle of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the world. The next six weeks include: our own Palette Poetry Prize, Pank Book Awards, Black Warrior Review, Asian American Literary Review, multiple residencies and grants, and more.
Poetry We Admire: Place
By Kim Harvey
For August’s Poetry We Admire, we’ve gathered seven recent poems from across the web that engage with the theme of Place. Sit back and enjoy the ride as we explore the stunning landscapes in these beauties from Traci Brimhall in Terrain.org, José Olivarez in Guesthouse, Faylita Hicks in The Adroit Journal, Travis Cravey in Marías at Sampaguitas, Catherine Pierce in The Shore, Nadia Escalante Andrade translated by Cecilia Weddell in Harvard Review Online and Sharon Tracey in SWWIM Every Day.
Let the World Have You
By Mikko Harvey
“your life really / does turn out to be / a cycle of starting / fires, briefly / worshipping them”
Porcupines
“outside this shelter, a plague / stretching its empire around the world / fastens a mouth like a griot to his reed”