Bethesda
“Anxiety pulls the jug out of your bone and kneads it / For nothing.
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.
Final Boy Ponders the Slash
“remember the tourniquet / your husband made you carry / out & across & around / the city / in case of emergency”
The Overview Effect
“We are stunned // when we see the thing we came to retrieve: / a body’s worth of ashes, divided into three bricks so tangible”
Mass Bouquet
“like bees we are easily agitated / until we too idly gaze at the carefully organized skeletons”
love poem
“if the plastic island in the pacific / were actually an island / i would live there / with you.”
Fag
“Do I count i I’ve never spoken wish / into the lory hole?”
Poetry We Admire: Hybrids
This October, our team has curated poems with Hybrid forms, selected by Ben Bartu.
Womb Meditation
“we will spend the rest of our lives aching for wholeness— / the two of us together & each of us alone.”
Sonoran Desert
“Some might say I’m reaching, but that’s what metaphors do. / But inside them, there’s always a feather of truth.”