Post Immigration Pastoral
“Do you // remember his steady hands? / How badly we wanted to love, in him, // some unliftable part of ourselves?”
Contest Winner
Let the World Have You
By Mikko Harvey
“your life really / does turn out to be / a cycle of starting / fires, briefly / worshipping them”
Provenance
“My great great grandfather’s head / looks nothing like my great great grandfather. / It’s placed on its side, in the Wallace exhibit, / in a museum in London.”
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!
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”
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!
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2020 Spotlight Award!
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.”