Poetry
Poetry
Thank god your horrors outweigh your manners.
“You cannot adequately light a black thought.”
Justin Phillip Reed
November 27, 2020
Poetry
Household of Eight
“When it’s night / And they go to bed, / Mother begins / To wish she were dead.”
Avrom Reyzen
November 13, 2020
Poetry
Beys
“The history of our houses is a history of dissolution, like vows on Kol Nidre”
Anthony Russell
October 30, 2020
Poetry
From “When the World Stopped Touching: Mothers’ Letters Through Pandemic”
“Help, / still something / we refuse we need.”
Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan
October 16, 2020
Poetry
For Louise Glück
A triptych honoring Louise Glück’s Nobel win
Gabrielle Bates
October 12, 2020
Poetry
Music Practice
“What could a tongue remember after loss and hunger?”
Valzhyna Mort
October 2, 2020
Poetry
Strike
“I want a giant strike, / that extends even to love.”
Gioconda Belli
September 18, 2020
Poetry
We went through days . . .
“We went through days as if we went through wind-blown gardens.”
Anna Margolin
September 4, 2020
Poetry
The Only Conversation
“look how the tide / lifts the boat by / consoling it”
Ben Purkert
August 21, 2020
Poetry
Anniversary
“I keep quiet // but the wind still stumbles through the psalm // we wrote together.”
Carina del Valle Schorske
August 7, 2020
Poetry
Invasive Species
“Little song years remastering truth / now begins its own truth”
Carl Phillips
July 24, 2020
Poetry
Dybbuk
“They say a dislocated dead soul pumps out curses / like a t-shirt cannon.”
Ruth Madievsky
July 10, 2020
Poetry
No Goods, No Managers
“We have a million pens but not a one fucking / works”
Jake Orbison
June 26, 2020
Poetry
The Bird of Sorrow
“A bullet passes through my neck / my blood / begins to speak through my feathers”
Garous Abdolmalekian
June 12, 2020
Poetry
[unfinished draft]
“when fucking, I frequently mistake cries of pleasure for cries of faith”
Rachel Mennies
May 22, 2020
Poetry
Far Rockaway
“The war was not over / in my grandmother’s mind.”
Judith Harris
May 8, 2020
Poetry
Middle Life Money
“I cannot outstare the bill faces”
Lillian-Yvonne Bertram
April 24, 2020
Poetry
of return
“someone’s lived here before. it takes hours to wipe his outlook off the windows.”
Max Czollek
April 10, 2020
Poetry
Watching the Twilight
“Painstakingly, the Earth spins, and as it does, / I look out into the world inside an incubator”
Choi Seung-ja
March 27, 2020
Poetry
Before Apocalypse
“what parts of us weren’t inherited from a light / of understandable distance”
George Abraham
March 13, 2020
Poetry
Sisterhood
“Sister, when we found the hare, / a wounded emigrant in our yard, / it was already dying—it wasn’t our fault”
Aria Aber
February 28, 2020
Poetry
On The 10th Anniversary Of The Disappearance Of America’s Anti War Movement While The Wars Rage On
“lies from our government and / lies of corporations seem to / find common ground”
CAConrad
February 7, 2020
Poetry
You Arrived
“We said many things in a language woven from silence / under a toppled bell tower.”
Jacques Viau Renaud
January 16, 2020
Poetry
Ladder
“How does / a story break?”
Tom Haviv
January 2, 2020
