How We Tell Our Story
“Like we seeing in those days rain rain for days / And carrying roofs off houses, and throwing away clothes off lines, / And spoiling roads we manage force government build for us.
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.
Alphabet Soup
“For a sail, I’ll varnish this elm leaf from her garden / and stroke its shroud lines with licks of cherry red.”
Two Poems
“the blight it takes to crack / into a redflesh, juice splatter / at the neck and breast, thickthroated / with pulp”
The Poet to the Nun
By Anna Elkins
“In my language, earth / is an anagram for heart / (& angels glean / integrals & triangles / & lighted delight.)”
After a Line by Montaigne
By Karen Rigby
“A throat holds as much song as you let it. / The span between a bird’s wings the same as a fist.”
Self-Portrait in Lieu of My EP
“It’s like that very first taste of hypocrisy, like that fetal position we practice and fittingly forget when the speakers pick me up with my filth”
In Response to My Mother When She Says Hearing Me Read My Writing’s like Hearing God
“God // cannot be remission, the clear scan, a bell’s clang after my / last treatment.”
Huitlacoche
“Unhusk me if you must, call me / acquired, call me dirty, call me corn smut.”
Feral and Conjoined
By Nicole Homer
“They got in the car. All of them: the whore, the john, and me, staring at my knees. We were feral and conjoined from then.”