Tesoro by Yesika Salgado (2018)

III.
Amargura
h you asked me once ( Read more... )

The Tradition by Jericho Brown (2019)

I
Bullet Points I will not shoot myself ( Read more... )

Obit: Poems by Victoria Chang (2020)

I
My Father’s Frontal Lobe (excerpt)
I understood then that darkness is falling without an end. That darkness is not the absorption of color but the absorption of language.

My Mother (excerpt ( Read more... )

Ledger: Poems by Jane Hirshfield (2020)

FECITfor a person in love, the air looks no different ( Read more... )

Runaway: New Poems by Jorie Graham (2020)

I
MY SKIN IS
parched, on tight, questioned, invisible, full of so much evolution, now the moment is
gone, begin again, my skin, here, my limit of the visible me, I touch it now, is
spirit-filled, naturally-selected, caught in the storm here under this tree, propped up by
history, which, I don’t know ( Read more... )

The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde by Audre Lorde (2020)

from The First Cities (1968)
Father Son and Holy GhostI have not ever seen my fathers grave ( Read more... )

Two Half Faces: A Selection of the Poetry of Mustafa Stitou, translated from the Dutch by David Colmer (2020)

from Pig-Pink Picture Postcards, 2003:Sometimes a woman decides to lie down in bed ( Read more... )

Faces in the Crowd by Valeria Luiselli (2011), translated by Christina MacSweeney (2012)

Chapter 1It all began in another city and another life. That’s why I can’t write this story the way I would like to-as if I were still there, still just only that other person. I find it difficult to talk about streets and faces as if I saw them every day. I ( Read more... )

Felon: Poems by Reginald Dwayne Betts (2019)

CITY OF THE MOON
for JBThere walks a man, somewhere ( Read more... )

The Twenty-Ninth Year: Poems by Hala Alyan (2019)

Halfway to July They call it heaven’s intersection: the dry grass soliciting rain like loose change, a ( Read more... )