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If Covid-19 Wasn’t a Stain in the Wind, Would the Earth Bleed Any Less?
“Like I say, your body — a product of salt & / music — takes the circumference of a circle, so there is no / wildfire sitting in your throat.”
Autotroph, My Autotroph
“The moon is not a star, not even a minor one / to some other planet. No one will love the moon / like we do here, so far from all the more interesting bodies.”
Intersection #8
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.
Ouroboros
“Happiness is a sick old thing– / not the chemical response of the body, / but the way I hunger for it, lost / in my own madness like a dog”
Winners of the 2020 Emerging Poet Prize!
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2020 Emerging Poet Prize, selected by Ilya Kaminsky!
Poetry We Admire: Praise
By Kim Harvey
For July’s Poetry We Admire on Praise, we continue to #amplifymelanatedvoices. Again this month, we choose to let these extraordinary poems speak for themselves. All praise goes to the amazing Angelo Geter in Poem-a-Day, Sanam Sheriff in The Offing, Ina Cariño in Waxwing, Nikky Finney in Blood Orange Review, and Assétou Xango in Poem-a-Day.
How to Identify Yourself with a Wound (2018)
By K B
“Who am I kidding; / I’ve only ever been a question. Laugh? Womb? Wound? Sure.”
Two Poems
“Do you think you / could recite the narrative lies / of my life? Like jewels lining / the vertebrae. Like architecture.”