Engine Attitude
“in the park, as the baby bird wanders the ground, crying, / the engine of a boy’s curiosity makes him crouch”
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.
The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“Tomorrow, it will be today again, / whole lives tucked between / the words is & was.”
Poetry We Admire: Migration of Dreams
This December, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems and writes about the Migration of Dreams.
SMEAR THE QUEER
“I feared pain / but hoped each hit might knock more pink / out of my gut, stain me truer blue.”
Assembly
“and we admit / invention is not / a sound description / of language: found, / maybe, or sorted–“
Landmark
By Isha Camara
“think ourselves in opposition to what murders us: / We carry ourselves above ground, float every night.”
Poetry We Admire: Indigenous Poets
This November, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems by Indigenous Poets.
[the man in the dusk-colored glasses on gato b.]
By J.D. Debris
“Everywhere I go, I take the borderline with me. / & so for luck, & because I must, I cross myself”
Under these circumstances, I’ll have to settle for here,
“Summer isn’t a time for play it’s a time / for playing at forever”