Excerpts from the Pinocchio Interviews
“And that magic’s smell—vernix and blood / and sweat and earth—I didn’t register it / as life. I sensed it and saw my decay.”
How Can Brown People Write About Birds At a Time Like This
“this / world cuts away my patience at knife point for one / reason—to resurrect my hurricane.”
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?”
Answer
By Lea Marshall
“Highlighter yellow, dignity / of curled claw, still open eye. Hard lesson of weightlessness // on my palm.”
Featured Poetry
We are so grateful to every poet who shares their work with us—please enjoy perusing the stunning work in our poetry archive.
Small “e” earth
By Kat Couch
“a great blue pearl, and / not the fine flour / of the mesa / under your feet”
Soft Rot Logbook
By Razraseny
“Day 38: Language Malfunction / I tried to say light. / What came out / was the taste of calcium.”
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,”