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 We Admire: Salt

This August, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates a selections of poems around the theme of salt.

“as a child I was a sea / the sea left behind”

“I watch man / pluck down from duck, / knuckles over palms, elbows / over ice.”

“maybe it’s the new moon / nostrils, the rounded shape / of my face, or the way I look / at him, wondering, too.”

“My mother misses a version of me / who is dead. My mother yells / because her parents did not teach her / how to cry.”

This July, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems of curios and mementos.

“I don’t regret me / any: dipso, / amoroso, weirdo / and square.”

“Our numbers dwindle. We came from different / provinces, but die the same.”

“Orange & blue room not a room / but a woven thing, mainly idea.”