cyclical city
“their demands; our chants / oneiric & guttural — we protest / a faceless nation & call her a mother.”
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.
Remote Work
“Sunlight on the elms, laughter / out of season: The work of love is done / remotely, a quantum entanglement / of limbs.”
Poetry We Admire: Black Voices
“This Black history month, we return to poems from our archives, poems we love, poems that have changed us, poems we think about all the time.”
Blue
By Sara Henning
“I date a boy named Elijah, Hebrew for my God…From him, I learn that heat is a measure of disorder.”
Restoration
“Goldmanite, / use what seeds you can to drape / this mountain in clouds, Muses / in the forest”
The Hollywood Glacier
By Maria Nazos
“how the body’s slow melting / is the only way / to open a hardened heart / the glacier you enter with dissolving”
Sand Flats, UT
By Emily Lawson
“but you held me down, just like this, / possessed, alien, godlike, looking at me, outside of / time—”
The Resemblance of Lopsided Appendages
“I look down / at the skew-whiff knobs / of my fingers, each wonky digit sprawled / out toward their stubborn / destinations”
(patos y mojados)
“we studied flight patterns in endless, borderless skies / the way travelers study maps.”