A Body in a Room
“A body flooded in night light, a room whispering.
A body until it had no more thoughts, utterly a body.
A room very long and very deep. A body of soft striped light.”
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.
Your Girlfriend in 30 Parts
“you return on your knees, the flowers / I bloom from the soil of my belly alive, / blossoming blue and / billowing from the fold of your mouth.”
Poetry We Admire: Motherhood
For May & Mother’s Day, we looked for poems published recently that speak to the theme of motherhood. …
MEAT
By Ananda Lima
“In the red light of late / afternoon I stand clean / and naked in the / post / shower fog”
Elegy Pantoum
By Dean Rader
“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.”
Difference
“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”
Poet Wrestling with the Blood Hooves
“Contagions. {As you}. I’ve crushed beneath / these blood hooves. Sodden-electrical sting. Touch me”
Poetry We Admire: New Beginnings
For this month, we looked for poems published recently that speak to the theme of new beginnings. These …
A Small Life
“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”