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Julia Guez
the dark is very dark
on the night-side of things,
long is very long.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- March 31, 2023
Christopher Brean Murray
Somewhere Rilke speaks of "vast, ruined
kingdoms of cloud." That from the love letter
of another exiled prince.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- March 30, 2023
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.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- March 29, 2023
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
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- March 28, 2023
From my seat alongside Rattlesnake Creek, I looked upstream toward the high-elevation wilderness snowfields that framed and fed the floodplain. The water at my feet had once resided there, and before that it existed as moisture trapped inside a cloud, and perhaps before that as fog, the slough’s breath, the valley’s exhalation, ad infinitum. This was doubtless rudimentary elemental positing, but the mere proximity to moving water had at least succeeded in getting me “out of my head.”
Result Type
- What Sparks Poetry
Feature Date
- March 27, 2023
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.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- March 27, 2023
Wong May
The late Qing Emperor left 4 words
On a stone pier:
“Dawn Moon
Over Lugou”
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- March 26, 2023
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.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- March 25, 2023
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.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- March 24, 2023
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.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- March 23, 2023
