Poetry
We are so grateful to all of our partner-poets for sharing their work with us—please enjoy their beautiful words in our Featured Poetry catalogue.
Recovery
By Sheila Black
“Of light and its many / moods between languorous and violent. Of / caring and solicitude and the far beach of walking.”
Commercial Fisherman
“The rest is personal packing to keep my insides from falling out, / wrapped around the thing that makes no sense. Duncan’s body, / or what was left of it, washed up in a tide pool.”
Abecedarian on Shame
By Natasha Rao
A mushroom quietly throbs with poison. I bloat full of lies. Spurred by my capacity for ruin, I …
With Only the Moon to See
By Grace Wagner
“Another shooting today / but still I am thinking of this whale, the way / its tail lies flat on the sand, its mouth agape, / hand-sized teeth bare and beckoning.”
Hypothetically Speaking
By Taylor Byas
“Say I then stretch / an arm towards you, rasp out help. Let’s say you don’t. / Let’s say you let me die.”
Killing the Dragon
“I prefer the forgetting / of what doesn’t beg to be / remembered: nights that know my body parts / for the way they could be anyone else’s / in the swarm.”
JUNETEENTH
By Mia Willis
“a slapdash driftwood body / charybdis waves / guileful / tempestuous”
Reading natural history on a bus leaving Ottawa
By Sunny Chan
“The day I found out seabirds drink saltwater using a gland above their eyes / We celebrated the news like it was something that happened to us.”