Interview with Natasha Trethewey
Get prepared to dig into your mid-week longread: our friend Rowan Lynam got the amazing chance to sit …
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Research on the Color White
“Swans made / beautiful endings / and moved / like slow ships. / What wedding dress / has ever lied?”
Debut Poetry: Summer 2018
Let 2018 be the year of knowing all the debut poets—as well as the wonderful publishers making their dreams a reality.
Yoemon and Kasane
“The folding mirror: In which a skull’s eye sockets gleam, / And you can pour blood over it.”
Poetry We Admire: Burning
At Palette Poetry, we love work that burns. Poems that burble over in anger. Poems burning up in desire and ecstasy. Language that holds us hostage with burning questions.
The Domesticated Troubadour
By Jaydn DeWald
“he’s sure the romance will return / someday in a sweep of cheatgrass cloud- / shadows drifting over his open palms but then / where will his kids be”
Becoming Poet: Kazim Ali
“…there’s a lot of “dry spells” in my writing process but can you really call them purposeless? Things cross-fertilize. Richness arises without harbinger.”
Cytokinesophobia
By Don Hogle
“Anything / that can, will divide, double and / eventually become a rain”
Deadlines for August: Chapbooks
We’ve got to be thankful to live in a world which offers so many opportunities for poets to …