Category Archives: Poetry

Thanks to a birthday gift from a friend, I sought out after reading one of his novels the poetry of Steven Price. I am reading Steven Price’s Anatomy of Keys which takes as its subject the life and lore of … Continue reading →

rupi kaur the sun and her flowers on the particularities of nostalgia leaving her country was not easy for my mother i still catch her searching for it in foreign films and the international food aisle And so for day … Continue reading →

rupi kaur the sun and her flowers in the middle of a poem about rape call the electrician my eyes won’t light up assessing the damage … formulating hope And so for day 2833 14.09.2014

Lucia Perillo On the Spectrum of Possible Deaths “The Unturning” My friend said: write about the dog in The Odyssey — four hundred pages in, I found him […] […] […] you expect the dog to give him away with … Continue reading →

Arielle Twist Disintegrate / Dissociate A single line from “The Girls” a game, an experiment, an experience, alive, afraid Reads like a narrative syntagm (an invitation to consider how a game becomes a fearful situation); or a reverse transcription for … Continue reading →

If this was the sole surviving sentence, it would be worthy. Our libraries are poorer for having only scraps of Sappho’s body of work, but our imaginations aren’t. Jason Guriel “Lovable Losers” The Pig-headed Soul And so for day 2819 … Continue reading →

Gwen Benaway Day/break The last poem ends : “yes, I admit I lied / this body / knows nothing / I can call / home.” The postscript ends : “and I turn back, / reluctant and confused, / to life.” … Continue reading →

Soraya Peerbaye Poems for the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names From the suite of poems that give the collection its title: botany meets linguistics. In a museum farther north is the only recording of the Yaghan tongue. Ferns of language … Continue reading →