Poetry
Poetry
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“They did not mean to kill the children. / They meant to.”
Fady Joudah November 10, 2023
Poetry
prologue for now - Gaza
“I’ve taken this inventory before for all the ‘human animals’ ”
Dionne Brand October 27, 2023
Poetry
Naturalized
“Here’s your math. Here’s your hot take. / That number isn’t a number. / That number is a first word, a nickname, a birthday song in June.”
Hala Alyan October 20, 2023
Poetry
By Such Honorifics, You Attempt to Summon the Old Country You Have Never Seen
“Chosen affliction / Spilt milk / Pool of amnesia / Extreme sport / Terminal psychodrama”
Momtaza Mehri September 22, 2023
Poetry
Two Poems
“Eager for big words the woman whispered / Do you still love me / Do you see the death squads of tradition”
Joyce Mansour July 28, 2023
Poetry
a SONNET
“Without you, imagine, otherwise the paltry sum of speech I’d be.”
Jos Charles June 16, 2023
Poetry
covering
“in the broadest conception / of black music, which is the / truest conception of black / music, black music can’t be / conceived.”
Fred Moten May 19, 2023
Poetry
Pointed Handwriting
“I yelled out, Pull that child out from the frozen puddle! My throat kept screaming and my heart was like a pitch-black forest. The graves inside the forest hit me.”
Kim Hyesoon April 21, 2023
Poetry
Adjacent
“My life was going on / in the next room. There // were board games and / Pinochle”
Andrea Cohen March 31, 2023
Poetry
Ingénue
“What did the child dream of / back home in the provinces, / with nothing behind but landscape?”
Jameson Fitzpatrick March 17, 2023
Poetry
So Trued to a Roar
“No answer, unless of leaves / acquiring light, and small lives / going about their business / of being less”
Christian Wiman March 3, 2023
Poetry
The Store
“the floors we cleaned, / the money we made to pay off / ownable things”
Mario Chard February 3, 2023
Poetry
Song of the Scent of the Beloved
“No one sensory mode sufficed. No / one / sense was enough.”
Nathaniel Mackey January 20, 2023
Poetry
As:
“the light of beginning which hasn’t yet been / in rivers of letters running through words”
Peter Cole January 6, 2023
Poetry
Hinotama
“The women were coyotes / in the early hours of night // blood already forming / on their teeth”
Brandon Shimoda December 2, 2022
Poetry
Language: Replete with Transformative Monsters
“language not assembled embitterment / or ruse / or disjunctive gesture / but alive”
Will Alexander November 4, 2022
Poetry
Everyday People
“Everyday people do impossible things / Bury their child on a warm / Spring day then make / A fresh pot of coffee”
Ana Božičević October 21, 2022
Poetry
Red Puncta
“The other girls’ bodies / conduct a current of faith but she stands outside / of the circuit.”
Jenny Xie October 7, 2022
Poetry
Second Man
“If a man has traveled on a train / with a second man and that / second man dies, the other / accepts the rest of his life.”
Nachoem M. Wijnberg August 18, 2022
Poetry
All These Beloved Books
“You are nothing / but chambers of unblocked light.”
Miller Oberman July 22, 2022
Poetry
Craft Talk
“This drone-baby becomes / an imagined condition the poem has released into the world. / I do not know what it intends. I do not know what it will eat.”
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi July 8, 2022
Poetry
After
“Dark of plenty, of fracture. God’s dark / of perfect recall.”
Maya C. Popa June 24, 2022
Poetry
Gay Travel (or Music Makes the People Come Together)
“B slid through security checkpoint / after security checkpoint, // each playing a different era of Madonna.”
Kyle Carrero Lopez June 10, 2022
Poetry
Die Schreibblockade: Selections
“I have returned to the city of my dead. / It is the living who live there. I do not know them.”
Eugene Ostashevsky May 27, 2022
