A
“A is antecedent, anterior, the abscess from which all else / arises. The atrocity in the attic, but also the attic’s architecture.”
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 Gallery of America
By Katie Hale
“There was ugliness, too, in the gallery, though the audioguide / steered me meticulously away.”
Year of the Gilded Pig
By April Lim
“Hands pulsing, demands I eat / myself golden, the gentlest curves of mango, / she still carves me.”
A Road
By Jeff Ewing
“That along / the way we acquire and shed companions. That the sky / goes black at night and lights again in the morning–“
I Refuse to Write a Poem About Body
By Nora Hikari
“I refuse to strike matches against my body, / I refuse to match my body against the years / it is owed”
Poem with Locked Box
“And to think these are our success stories: / the invention of violence / our people’s greatest innovation.”
Poetry We Admire: Erosion
I tend to get nervous faced with the impulse to begin an article by tracing etymology. To frame …
Mother of Pearl
“Mother / was not the first word in my mouth. The word was baba: / meaning, father; meaning, mouth.”
HUSBAND LIKES HER TO LEAVE FRUIT IN HER VAGINA ALL DAY SO HE CAN EAT IT LATER
“Can we ever write woman / without writing fruit? / Without food, blood-red, or cut/gash/slit / in half?”