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Julia Guez
the dark is very dark
on the night-side of things,
long is very long.
book
Four Way Books
Feature Date
- March 31, 2023
Series
Selected By
Christopher Brean Murray
Somewhere Rilke speaks of "vast, ruined
kingdoms of cloud." That from the love letter
of another exiled prince.
book
Milkweed Editions
Feature Date
- March 30, 2023
Series
- Editor's Choice
Selected By
- Dana Levin
Emily Lee Luan
A sadness held in the mouth. Is this
Savor my ceaseless condition? If so, I’m
Sick with it. Pull out my molars.
Make of me a simpler O.
book
Nightboat Books
Feature Date
- March 29, 2023
Series
Selected By
Annelyse Gelman
The dominant metaphor for the body was the engine
The dominant metaphor for the city was the body
The dominant metaphor for identity was consumption
Sometimes a brain got too big, holes had to be drilled
To make room, I committed the first page of the economics textbook to memory
People always want more, no matter how much they have already
book
University of Chicago Press
Feature Date
- March 28, 2023
Series
Selected By
Chris Dombrowski
grip, so much like this white cloud that eludes
the branches’ grasp before lofting west: the wind-
blown work of her hands—long-traveled, adrift
from parts celestial, a word I haven’t quite relinquished.
book
Wayne State University Press
Feature Date
- March 27, 2023
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Wong May
The late Qing Emperor left 4 words
On a stone pier:
“Dawn Moon
Over Lugou”
journal
The Yale Review
Feature Date
- March 26, 2023
Series
Selected By
Traci Brimhall
That’s how I know I’m a successful candidate.
The temptations. The failures. The ever afters of forgiveness
I have already lived. For so long I offered others the love
I wanted to receive, the cursive letters and lost slippers.
journal
SWWIM
Feature Date
- March 25, 2023
Series
Selected By
Olivia Muenz
But don't let this get you. Down. Don't go all soft. On one now. I am frozen. In time. I am a big memory box. I am all meat. I can eat you alive if you let me.
book
Switchback Books
Feature Date
- March 24, 2023
Series
Selected By
Sarah Audsley
When my mother returns, she is
the bitter in my mouth I can’t dilute; she swells inside;
she’s the branch from which birds will never fly.
book
Texas Review Press
Feature Date
- March 23, 2023
Series
Selected By
Jami Padgett
when it died; the turtle I found
& kept
beneath my bed
with a leaf to eat,
that my brother threw
from the bowed back
door before he said
I was cruel
journal
Nashville Review
Feature Date
- March 22, 2023