by Harriet Weaver | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
What Occurs to Me This Morning When I wake up you are raving about home renovations and Duane Allman and showing me doubling guitars— like how sometimes you walk around strumming the one you built yourself, or play beats you soon forget but I can sing for months. My...
by Precious Okpechi | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
lonely and great god my spine is curved & looking down on the earth.the other day, a stranger raised my chin up with her finger, asked the name of my loneliness, & walked meto the end of the road, my hand in hers. before i was born, i must have wished, with...
by Madeline Johnson | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
Renting a Room at Home My house is furnished with jars of tar and spit they don’t belong to me but take up the empty spaces Leave the TV on after dinner to drown the stillness with canned laughter or politicians on the evening news if the volume is loud...
by Madina Tuhbatullina | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
Concave Seats Days that walk in slippers andbrush baby hairdid not hear fatherstell other tall men I madea mistake withcigarette interruptions her lilac dress suit and purse clickwelcome asphalt and kindergartenwith puppets inherited over hands ofchildren who hadn’t...
by Max Rothschild | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
For Dionne Brand, or, Another Person in Another Place Mysteries conjugate. Mystery conjugates. What becomes of clarity. In the final remove. Time as time. The past involves itself in the present to what degree? A unitary voice is always manifold, in combination. He is...
by Sam Warford | Jul 21, 2023 | Poetry, Poetry 2023
Us Us,romping in the uncut grasseswe gathered across decades.Us, our hands, squeezingthe desperate pigments from four soured walls.Us, singing with daytime vigorand doubts all heaven-bound. Us,and these word-taught lung whispers propping up the big ladder,watching the...
