SIEGE SIEGE
i. In the dark, a woman traces the body of her son the way she traces the map of scars that adorns her body. It is night in their village. Outside, the branches of trees fal…
Sep 29, 2022 / Poems / Rasaq Malik
Elegy for a Poet Who Loved Sneakers Elegy for a Poet Who Loved Sneakers
I didn’t know who you were, and then you died. I went searching for your poems online devouring one after another then reading your Twitter feed backwards, your voice gettin…
Sep 15, 2022 / Poems / P. Scott Cunningham
[Take immortality, God, but give] [Take immortality, God, but give]
Take immortality, God, but give me this cold apple cellar. Take the souls and other toys, but let us live: not-Adam and not-Eve not your son’s— my son’s life. Wet hole in a cellar…
Sep 6, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Dmitry Blizniuk
dear little b, dear little b,
I love to see you sat there pregnant with promise & nobody’s business: be bodacious if you feel like it. be camouflaged, if not. some might say you should be louder, bolder, ta…
Aug 23, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Victoria Adukwei Bulley
How to Fornicate How to Fornicate
I.After killing your god, hotbox the gun smoke. Cough out any vestigial prayer. Remember that spooky shit Ole Boy hissed mid-smite, bullet-plowed, curling away. It’s true. You bel…
Aug 18, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Kemi Alabi
less hope less hope
apologies. i was part of the joy industrial complex, told them their bodies were miracles & they ate it, sold someday, made money off soon & now. i snuck an ode into the el…
Aug 9, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Danez Smith
Closure Closure
Is it the eight titanium pins around my knees or the fact that for three months the incisions were left open? I grew to know that plush of inside— the velvets, the iodine to preven…
Aug 9, 2022 / Books & the Arts / Sheila Black
Encounters With Adélia Prado Encounters With Adélia Prado
Five new translations of the Brazilian poet’s work by Ellen Doré Watson.
Jul 28, 2022 / Poems / Adélia Prado and Ellen Doré Watson