The Bookman
By Lise Goett
“Alden is a bookman. // The gift of a great bookman lies in his ability to pick out the right book for anyone”
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X-Ray Diptych in Ben Gurion Airport
By Tarik Dobbs
“The body compounds / lack: when the mother lacks light, does her child / inherit absence? Today, / I sleep in a room with no / blinds. Do I carry radiation/ like a sadness? Do I irradiate generations?”
Hippocampus
“I couldn’t breathe. No one was to blame. / It was spring. Buds were busy / mocking me, proving we could live / through many deaths.”
Winners and Finalists of the 2020 Spotlight Award!
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The Luster of Everything I’m Already Forgetting
“I press my mouth to my son’s warm back, cowbells distant. This wild / longing to keep my body between his & any kind of desolation.”
What Will Happen
By Leila Chatti
“There will be in your life an absence so big / you will not believe it. You will say Show me / the body, and they will not show you the body.”
America’s First Female Muslim Judge Found Floating in a River
“In April we will find her body. / It is March. New York is gray, in between / seasons like a heart undecided / between new love and loss.”
Winners and Finalists of the 2019 Previously Published Poem Prize!
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After Frida Kahlo’s Sin Esperanza & the Crohn’s Diagnosis
“wheeled in on a bed three times her size. / A bouquet of rotting meats, / organs, & calaveras ensconced / between her lips.”