Catalogue Of Strange Rivers
“—A kind of evil, beauty looks cold in the eye of the ringsaw / —In the river, a strange fish holds itself against the grey water with swift”
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 (Resources) We Admire: Renee Good
In this Poetry We Admire column, we honor Renee Good by sharing her poetry and other poems pertinent to this moment in time, along with resources and organizations in Minnesota that you can support.
Rural Erotica
By Hayley Clin
“from sternum to Eden, / curving over ribs to stand / on the small of your back.”
Event Horizon
“I lift my dress to reveal an abyss into which the audience begins falling. // I: Holes at the center.”
Somewhere Light
By Svetlana Sterlin & Rae White
“dormant injury flares fluorescence through insomnia / am I nothing but cat reclined in day’s fading sunbeam?”
Ocean Radish: A Correspondence
By Samar Abulhassan & Sierra Nelson
“Is the poem on the underside / if I lift this letter up / like a barnacled rock?”
Excerpts from the Pinocchio Interviews
“And that magic’s smell—vernix and blood / and sweat and earth—I didn’t register it / as life. I sensed it and saw my decay.”
Those Pigeons, Missiles, and Submission
“a cruel writer / a wrathful god watching you run / through a veiled aperture in heaven.”
Catalogues of a Space Telescope around Boy Crushes, in 5 stages of Grief
By Charlie Wei
“There’s something elliptic about the way love dies in this compound: in west / wing, a college girl stacks another freshly killed into her ex’s jewelry box.”