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: Motherhood

For May & Mother’s Day, we looked for poems published recently that speak to the theme of motherhood. …

“In the red light of late / afternoon I stand clean / and naked in the / post / shower fog”

“I don’t want to be the blood on the blade, / but the world is a walking war, / and every inch of air is a wound.”

“I don’t believe in division; as I lay / on the sofa, my shrink says I project a / desperate need for harmony and I say / no shit, Sherlock”

“Contagions. {As you}. I’ve crushed beneath / these blood hooves. Sodden-electrical sting. Touch me”

For this month, we looked for poems published recently that speak to the theme of new beginnings. These …

“I don’t know if there is a smaller life / to hope for. A river / passing the house. The fish / floating in the pit
of its belly”

“I am tired. I want to be / worthy of an alternative undoing / to which I might surrender—”

“his words suave like jazz / musica his grinning keys / leaving us trembling with sparks / of enlightenment”