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Will Alexander
as magical utterance
as roughage self-specified in opening form onto random scholarly dust
thus
asking myself the one-line equation of how astonishment boils
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- June 7, 2023
Eleni Sikelianos
for dream. Then I remembered language
is a lingering we keep hoping will draw
up exigence like water
from a well, metal...
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- June 6, 2023
Here, Jordan complicates the most basic building blocks of syntax. Words that we take for granted (i.e. “from,” “with,” “to”) come under the poet’s scrutiny and cannot be passed over. He reveals how a preposition as simple as “with” contains multiple opposites–to mean both toward and against; because of and despite–which, when illuminated, disrupts meaning and demands that I look more closely. Throughout the book, Jordan shows how chance encounters, moments, and words can upend a life. Nothing is static; words, people, and history are dynamic and exist in relationship to each other and a larger context.
Result Type
- What Sparks Poetry
Feature Date
- June 5, 2023
A. Van Jordan
I ask again, where do the babies come from? And I'm snapped
Back to the spelling bee as the announcer repeats Nemesis
As two tongues dance like a poor child for change
Behind his teeth.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- June 5, 2023
Joyelle McSweeney
in your sleep you repeat the motion
of advancing, retracting
of flinging wide your nets to net the moon
but like every tide you fail
like a pulsing star you signal
like a star you fail to hide behind your signal
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- June 4, 2023
Mariana Berenice Bredow Vargas (translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander)
we barely know, who hardly matter to us,
words that only hide us from sorrow, forgive me
for saying so, but facing death, there’s just no place
for dissimulation, and I can’t imagine what...
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- June 3, 2023
Katie Farris
The waiting, sleek as otters, slips
between your lips.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- June 2, 2023
tatiana nascimento (translated from the Portuguese by Natália Affonso)
planning the end of the world, to me,
is an Afro-diasporic longing for
night becoming day
on the roof of your mouth,
word
apocalypse.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- June 1, 2023
Robert Wood Lynn
memory for continuing to be the past
with a leak in it somehow I love you
a little better every day surprised by it
each morning the way I am always
surprised by how goats make the sound
of drunks making goat noises
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- May 31, 2023
Kim Hyesoon (translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi)
The inside is life and the outside is death
Life is a sealed bag
I think that the guardrail bed
is flying away...
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- May 30, 2023
