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One house still has its Halloween decorations up: / a bright orange skeleton hangs by the door, / patiently waiting for the leaves to turn gold. / I invite the skeleton to become a poem.

ALBERT ABONADO | A Pile of Poems is Called a Negation

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"Your poems are a product of that conflict between the seeds you plant and what you actually cultivate."

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I packed the dying
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October 11, 2021
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June 9, 2021
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Life List

A series of poems by BIPOC poets that engage with birds, curated by Sean Hill.

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Wago Ryoichi’s Poetics of Catastrophe

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Native Poets Torchlight Series

In which Guest Editor Jennifer Elise Foerster celebrates contemporary Native American poets.

February 15, 2021
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"It isn’t enough to hold someone’s sorrow in your body till it ferments into song. Witnessing isn’t enough. You must become the sorrow."—an essay by Claudia F. Saleeby Savage

October 13, 2021
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There’s the Overthrow and There’s the Rebuild

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"Poems don’t replace the organizing—they supplement it."—an essay by Troy Osaki

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Interview // Post Romantic: A Conversation With Kathleen Flenniken

Published by Alexa Luborsky

"Marrying then and now, that's a ploy to be sensible, to recognize in my childhood-self the simplification and wishful thinking, to overlay some hard truth, and to acknowledge that...

October 21, 2021
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June 23, 2021

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