Intersection #6
“Ghosts assemble us again tonight. Ungrateful: this / page, white space, window-light. It will not be enough / to write. It will not be enough to rise and praise // the disappearance of all that came before us.”
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Deadlines: April & May 2020
Every 15th of the month: new deadlines, new contests, and new opportunities for your voice to find the world. The next six weeks include: our own Emerging Poet Prize, Ploughshares, Newfound, Live Cannon’s International Poetry Contest, Ruth Lilly Fellowship and more.
Poem for the God of Small Mercies
“Now, as usual, it is 3 a.m, and I am making / chokeberry jam. The ingredients: chokeberries, / pectin, sugar. The approximation of a prayer: any / violence made sweet.”
Poetry We Admire: Ars Poetica
By Kim Harvey
For April’s Poetry We Admire, we’ve picked some beauties that honor the art of poetry and what it may offer us in these uncertain times. Enjoy some incredible (mostly) new Ars Poetica from around the net.
Embodied Experience: An Interview With Sandra Faulkner
I thought there were things we created to survive us, and somewhere else the things we created to survive. Poetic inquiry has shown me the two are indistinct.
In It
“That is what poems do they call everything by a name and suddenly little pieces of metal scraping / against metal. Gutshot. Name it.”
Winners and Finalists of the 2020 Spotlight Award!
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2020 Spotlight Award!
IF I COULD WRITE YOU A HAPPIER ENDING
By Mary Foulk
“my squinting eyes search / any compass point / to return to / after your death—my own body / crawling towards that blue black”
Featured Favorites of 2019
These past few weeks, with their own wild and discordant sense of time, have felt like an invitation to reflect, to look back and find the good. We asked our readers to identify some of their favorites from the Featured Poetry we published in 2019.