Huitlacoche
“Unhusk me if you must, call me / acquired, call me dirty, call me corn smut.”
Contest Winner
Feral and Conjoined
By Nicole Homer
“They got in the car. All of them: the whore, the john, and me, staring at my knees. We were feral and conjoined from then.”
Winners and Finalists of the Emerging Poet Prize!
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the Emerging Poet Prize.
Hapnophobia or the Fear of Being Touched
“There is a word for the fear of water, but not of drowning. Another / for the fear of darkness, but not how it hides a person’s face.”
west harlem, july 2017
“black is everywhere but here it’s not a matter as much as it is a holy question”
Liberosis
“there’s a word for brown mothers and what they think is best: blanqueamiento”
Winners of the 2018 Palette Poetry Prize
It is an honor and a privilege to share the winners of the 2018 Palette Poetry Prize, as selected from our finalists by Shane McCrae.