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.

When the river at last has fled its bed

“we parse the difference between / jealousy and envy / & carry curved sticks / pointing nowhere.”

“I was a dock at night: empty / parting–I got called in and a woman stuck a thing / inside me to / see another creature.”

This month, we admire and celebrate the work and words of Black poets.

“& no matter how dark the city, / the sun found a way to peel it off, shadow / by shadow by shadow.”

“what facts are there left / that can we truly hold onto / our rancid love / our knowledge / of milk / how it need not be / maternal”

I recover each tiny thorn that’s / lodged itself into my sky-worn eyes. / Los ancantilados rojo han pinchado / el piel mío.

In the name of the rock. In the name of the lily blossom. / In the name of white paint smeared across a tomb.

For May’s Poetry We Admire, we curated five excellent poems from around the net on the theme of mothers/motherhood.

“without the rain i undress the night myself / like the skin of bruised fruit”