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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.

EVA HOOKER
Quiddity

Published by Gabi Graceffo

Odd shaggy bits
of memory flourish & multiply

OKSANA MAKSYMCHUK
Pure Poetry

Published by Gabi Graceffo

From an ever-greater distance
I begin to see

JHIO JAN NAVARRO
Confession of Flies
(translation by Eric Abalajon)

Published by Gabi Graceffo

Like mosquitoes there is also something that flies whisper.

MOLLY WILLIAMS
Piazza del Campo, After a Race

Published by Gabi Graceffo

A stranger asked the time, clearly

HENRY GOLDKAMP
louisiana emergency evacuation map

Published by Gabi Graceffo

we need people
to chew their food with their mouths open.

DMITRY SHANDRA
Excerpt from In a Sea of Nightmares
(translation by Denis Pinchuk and Bohdan Bondarchuk)

Published by Gabi Graceffo

What other dreams will these landscapes inspire.

SEAN CHO A.
Little Rectangle #1

Published by Gabi Graceffo

it’s terrifying to think that this sadness is original

NIANXI CHEN
I Want to Own a Newstand
(translation by Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor and Kuo Zhang)

Published by Gabi Graceffo

I want to own a newsstand
small,
enough to hold the confusion of middle age.

JIMIN SEO
Richard’s Metaphors

Published by Gabi Graceffo

My friend, I’d very much like to see you

WILLIAM ARCHILA
[Don’t make it difficult to return . . . ]

Published by Gabi Graceffo

Don’t make it difficult to return. Don’t make it difficult to teleport.