BLUE WATER, WHITE WATER, HOLY WATER
“It is not the act itself / that is abhorrent – / it is the admission, / the eyes, the ears / witnessing.”
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: Disability
This September, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems that speak to, about, and through Disability.
Self-Portrait with Ouija Board
“In absence, everything / becomes legible. A planchette drifts / over my left eye.”
With Scraps We Made Sacred Food
“don’t talk to me / about spirit animals, but yes we are / boys with wings.”
Untitled Duck Poem
By Sanna Wani & Manahil Bandukwala
“This poem loves learning. This poem loves wandering, like two ducks or a river.”
Tongues
“These days / I am more afraid of questions than I am / of answers. No resolution.”
THE POST-OFFICE IS AN OPEN FLOWER
“Our separate lives hold between them / a weeping floodplain”
Poetry We Admire: Harmony
This August, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems of Harmony.
Full Moon in Cancer
By Hannah Smith
“as if I might fall back / into my own mother’s womb, / in the time before I slipped / into waning moonlight”