Bhion Achimba
and he said: in the war desire is
a bird face-to-face with glass
and she said: i'm hungry for a home
and he said: even bones thirst
from the journal
The Paris Review
What Sparks Poetry is a serialized feature in which we invite poets to explore experiences and ideas that spark new poems.
In Books We’ve Loved, we asked our editorial board members and select guest editors to reflect on a book that has been particularly meaningful to them in the last year, with the intention of creating a list of book recommendations for our valued readers.
- August 8, 2022
Mihaela Moscaliuc
Why not swill fine cellar wine directly from the bottle
why not waltz while mother cooks onions in the rain
so they won’t pollute the inside with their crass smell
- August 7, 2022
Megan Kim
hand-me-down nation
fitted like a crumpled fortune
into our ungovernable forms.
- August 6, 2022
Laynie Browne
1. I stayed up later than my body
2. Determined and strange
3. Am I less cynical unbroken...
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