Homograph
“has the widow given birth to new beings / or / has the widow given birth to fragments / of her loss”
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.
LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE APPEARS IN MY BATHROOM MIRROR
“Guadalupe tells me to pull it together! Time to chingona up, mija! / She palms my red nail polish and adorns her nails with OPI’s drop it like it’s hawt.”
Poetry We Admire: Rising Poets
By Sara Dudo
In this Poetry We Admire column, we revisit some of our previous Rising Poet Prize winners to see what new poems they have published.
What Is Pupation If Not Purgatory Misdefined?
“Never have I known this body to be anything but ululation. / Blessed be the bodies beatified by dolour; / theirs is grief’s gospel, turned flesh.”
Night Of 1000 Apophases
By Will Summay
“my father siphons the dreams / out of my forehead before bed. / He draws out every last drop / & what is left?”
The Arc of a Rocket is Louder
“the lover licks the lover’s silver tooth like a seafarer / pointing to the south we are alpha centauri”
Before Twenty Fifty
“I unwind / a migratory bird, / an orphaned accordion,”
Opened
“We bisect midnight, listening to Oppen. / Refusing to be numerous is to be frozen.”
I think I hate gardening
By Emily Tong
“here, too caught up in their fear & old / bones & fear. All writhing knots & / fray.”