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Huan He
The night rests
in a dust bed,
hushed asleep despite the dull thud
of Nakaya
cutting firewood, a lullaby in a dream
in a wish.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 27, 2023
Hannah Sullivan
Antsy on the windows, in the heat,
An uncertain hosanna.
It is hard to say if there is progress in history.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 26, 2023
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke
Orion hovering eastward drawn, readied.
Someone slinks past doorjamb
each choke hold felled vaporizes cognizance.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 25, 2023
Gabrielle Bates
I could imagine a version of our lives
in which he kept all his suffering secret from me.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 24, 2023
The plan was Sébastien’s, inspired tangentially by the so-called “torture test” that Olivier Cadiot and Pierre Alferi had devised, which involved translating Robert Duncan’s falconer-mother back and forth between English and French, so the original would bloom anew through its successive degradations. We posted a slide of a single poem from chapter 2, “the cow,” showing the French on the left, my provisional American English at right.
Result Type
- What Sparks Poetry
Feature Date
- January 23, 2023
Sébastien Smirou (translated from the French by Andrew Zawacki)
these psychedelic dreams where I’m zoomorphic—must discuss
relaxed along the field I give the feeling of a feeling
worth two cents I charge as usual blood rush my head spinning
I trigger a sort of revolution—better see about that.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 23, 2023
Kristín Svava Tómasdóttir (translated from the Icelandic by K. B. Thors)
the guideman would want to turn back
she would say it is doable
then swim her horse across coursing river...
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 22, 2023
Cindy Juyoung Ok
Under limits of the boxy
entry, you think of cities
as grids, describe a bird as
the tint of ink, forgetting
that ink can be any color.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 21, 2023
Brenda Hillman
our life a time-shaped miracle.
A new ash is covering the plants,
planet ... plans::
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 20, 2023
Jennifer Elise Foerster
I want space around the word, just enough
so that its shadow irritates the line—
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- January 19, 2023
