JACKSON HOLBERT Fall
Linnets learn / their songs by the sea
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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.
MICHAEL S. HARPER Proposition 15
eight rabbits in reins settle their / cottontail feet in the molasses earth / and begin their whimsical dancing
DANIELLE SELLERS At Lake Mineral Wells State Park
Leaf shadows vibrate on the humus. / A woodpecker rattles its brain for a taste.
SHAMALA GALLAGHER Late Morning
Late morning & the world burns.
SARAH GAMBITO Virginia
We were brown and immigrant. We drove a Volkswagen and sang songs in the hymnals of white people. We loved these songs. And god was pinned to the underside of my skirt like a blood orchid.
TIANA NOBILE Why I Stay
I stay for the bayou. I stay for the river.
KIMBERLY ALIDIO Two Works
I can talk to you about what it means to be Asian American on the Blackland Prairie ecosystem. It means: I want to defend the sky.
CHING-IN CHEN Two Works
We wanted to see if the house was still standing, still holding space, still breathing ghosts.
William Cordeiro Inclemency
Shadows drink their bodies up then slip
away. Everyone out there is saying cheese.
A. R. AMMONS Muse
how many / times must I be broken and reassembled!