Florida is a Place on Earth: No Repetition Will Save You
By Siew Hii
“my favorite auntie’s hair is now the color of Orlando’s sky at 15 PM + / what would we do without women’s memories?”
Fire Season: Super Perennial
“in one dream, a rain shower in every room, matchbook tucked / into the hem of a yellow dress / fountain tumbling with smoke instead of water,”
False Aubade
By Lisa Compo
“Night collapsed into day. Silence fell, / somewhere a new dimension grew.”
Texas, May 1999
By Sylvia Fox
“Here I kiss the peach fuzz undersides of dandelion leaves, / of sharp-edged thistle for the tingle left behind, / my mouth a new land too”
Featured Poetry
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2025 Nature Poetry Prize: Winners & Finalists
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Flaming June
“combing a canyon meadow for wildflowers, letting pale tendrils trail / over my limbs. It’s all I’m good for, existence in the cadmium red stillness of summer.”
Sixth Mass Extinction
“Name this revenge. Name it absence. Name / the embers numberless as stars as / our daughter walks alone”