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: Harmony

This August, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates poems of Harmony.

“as if I might fall back / into my own mother’s womb, / in the time before I slipped / into waning moonlight”

“this here a full grown fro, a theatrical thickness, this a untameable tangle / this stuff is molasses”

This July, Associate Editor Benjamin Bartu curates a selection of poems about care work.

“On all sides of the fishing pond, a maw. A clearing of the throat. A clear sky.”

“The difference between the earth and the sky / is not always obvious to me.”

From behind its aluminum dermis, / the machine transcribes the living, / studying the sound a muscle makes skipped / across roof of mouth.

“My afghanis are quietly pressed into palms and secretly traded / When ready for purchase, I place my afghanis face side up”

“About our bodies, strangers in white / deliver the news; in some places, the only option / is the option Mary had.”