Hypotenuse
By Len Lawson
“The eyes of injustice strike deep as a bullet. The eyes of a revolutionary strike deeper through eternity.”
Contest Winner
A
“A is antecedent, anterior, the abscess from which all else / arises. The atrocity in the attic, but also the attic’s architecture.”
The Gallery of America
By Katie Hale
“There was ugliness, too, in the gallery, though the audioguide / steered me meticulously away.”
Winners & Finalists for the 2021 Palette Poetry Prize
We are honored to share with everyone the winners and finalists of the 2021 Palette Poetry Prize! Please join us in congratulating these remarkable poets. Winners were selected by Jericho Brown.
Look
By Yi Wei
“The ripening of our women is a legacy / of burning. We leave behind nothing / but seeds.”
Layaway
“it is lonely here / in the way I imagine places without life at all are lonely – / the surface of Mars. / the Moon’s ridges.”
Lost Things
By Emily Zogbi
“I / turn over a vase & find my name. I round / a corner & the table has vanished. I shake / a teapot & the missing rings appear in my / mouth.”
Winners of the 2021 Sappho Prize
We are honored to share with everyone the winners, finalists, and longlist of the 2021 Sappho Prize for Women Poets! This year’s winners were selected by Maggie Smith.
The Present of Poetry
By Serrina Zou
“There is never enough bleach to taint our country clean, only enough / body politics to call ourselves a nation.”