Marginalia
By Winifred Mok
“A stranger’s cursive, passing grin / hidden sweet in gaps of stanzas”
Poetry
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Interview with Kimiko Hahn, Judge of the 2026 Nature Poetry Prize
“I am interested in toying with repetition and, as is obvious, repetition keeps our heart going, keeps us alive.”
TO BE ELIGIBLE FOR SURGERY, HAVE YOU BEEN ON HORMONE THERAPY FOR SEVERAL MONTHS?
“5/ Getting on implied that / testosterone had a seat for me to sit upon, / was a place to rest. / Was possibly a waiting equine / already saddled up— / her brown nose breaking my heart.”
First Contact
“We are not god’s first children / after all. They are skin to skin, / the field in flux, the aura of earth.”
Brisbane River Rowing
By Vuong Pham
“Two branches reach toward each other. Golden whistlers sing / as if it were the first day of creation.”
Strange Attractor
“As the sun sets, the bright motes haze the sweetgrass and timothy, / like unshelled souls crowding a lie”
Kingdom Animalia
“Horses are known to sleep / while standing up, as if their whole life // is a probable war.”
Insect Thermometer
“Earth work. Scum in clay pots. The sun booms bass clarinet. A lemon sweats its silence on the / dirt.”
Relic, I cannot cut my way
By Tola Sylvan
“then i am standing outside / your love and it divides / into three neat tent flaps: / lily, lilac, orange.”