PSALM WITH PASSING TRAIN
“I held my own arms out / like a cross, wanting // to hold her back, to pull her / closer.”
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: Eros
By Kim Harvey
Time to turn up the heat on this chilly February with some Poetry We Admire on the theme of Eros— a specially selected curation of recently published poems full of sensuality, desire, and an exploration of erotic love.
What Will Happen
By Leila Chatti
“There will be in your life an absence so big / you will not believe it. You will say Show me / the body, and they will not show you the body.”
A small bodied thing
“Ayo abaratintin —Joy, / so small-bodied.”
America’s First Female Muslim Judge Found Floating in a River
“In April we will find her body. / It is March. New York is gray, in between / seasons like a heart undecided / between new love and loss.”
Circle of Stones
“My mother masks my face. / Sharp lungful of lemon. / It’s like the trees have arms / that ask, that are asking”
self-exam
“before my exam i am in the waiting room / the windows yawn open like mouths”
For a long time
for a long time I think about isolated things like neighbors
“Cathedral Theory” & “Crawdad Theory”
“Dear priests in drag, dear builders of mazes, / dear anti-smoking billboards, I don’t know / exactly how to be good.”