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.

SMEAR THE QUEER

“I feared pain / but hoped each hit might knock more pink / out of my gut, stain me truer blue.”

“and we admit / invention is not / a sound description / of language: found, / maybe, or sorted–“

“think ourselves in opposition to what murders us: / We carry ourselves above ground, float every night.”

This November, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by Indigenous Poets.

“Everywhere I go, I take the borderline with me. / & so for luck, & because I must, I cross myself”

“Summer isn’t a time for play it’s a time / for playing at forever”

This October, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems of Legacy and Elegy.

“Desire amassed in my hands like precious ore, and I with nowhere to keep it.”

“the body knows when it might die / its puncture like our mouths”