Sauce on the Side
By Randy James
“I come blessed like / cocolon, Caesars fresh out the barber y platos de arroz / con pollo from corner bodegas. I am part flamingo, / part Black Howler.”
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.
On the Ohio
“The opposite of beauty is what we choose to look away from.”
Mexican Standard About a Desert
“What goddess of war / Came to me as a boy; dumb, / Summer-sweat wet child?”
Practicing How to Be in This World
“I want to be enough, but it’s still an outline / of a woman inside the outline of another woman.”
The Water
By Wendy Miles
“No one walks to the water alone. / There are ghosts. There are clusters of trees.”
Chinese Girl Strikes Back
By Dorothy Chan
“I know what I’m getting myself into / when he’s naked in bed, and I’m doodling / bears, bows, speech balloons, and bunnies”
Poetry We Admire: Food & Family
By Kim Harvey
This month we feature poems from Parentheses Journal, SWWIM, BOAAT Press, Poets Reading the News, The Hellebore Press, and Juke Joint Magazine. Let us share in a holiday feast of words from the grocery aisle to the roast and sautéed greens with ice cream and peach cobbler for dessert, and Reynolds-wrapped leftovers for later.
Dirge
By Frank Paino
“I have seen monks burning / in their saffron robes for days, / coaxing sand from throats / of silver”
Home Sick
By Neil Flatman
“Twilight. Watch trees on the near shore. / A tug boat chuckles at a private joke; / white furrow through the jade”