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.

Origin Myth

“I have decided to be happy in spite of everything that came before, and because of it.”

“in the park, as the baby bird wanders the ground, crying, / the engine of a boy’s curiosity makes him crouch”

“Tomorrow, it will be today again, / whole lives tucked between / the words is & was.”

This December, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems and writes about the Migration of Dreams.

“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”