Aubade with Hope
“River, river– / lift up your roaring tongue to heaven, / swear you do not have my mother / in your belly.”
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.
Poetry We Admire: Pride
This June, Benjamin Bartu spotlights four poems for Pride Month.
filipina cast as kneeling animal
By Louie Leyson
“here, words for woman depend / on the body’s proximity / to dusk, which is not the opposite / of light but its refraction.”
Horoscope
By Maya Kikuchi
“prioritize chaos on high / knees and kicked butts. / essentialize oil and free / fats.”
Dear Austin,
By Brian Builta
I don’t pray but my body speaks in wracks and / heaves. I sigh. My heart does its own thing, the organs / comply.
The Volunteer
By Amanda Hope
“When I could not disappear my humanity, I tried being amiable, / as though good cheer were an argument for existence.”
After Vesalius
“In real life, deadened by self-knowledge: / what would it mean to slice and study now?”
The Sound of Listening
“shame / is just another word for refusing to burn / down the palace”
Poetry We Admire: Asian and Pacific Voices in America
By Megan Kim
This May, Megan Kim spotlights four poems for Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.