JEREMIAH FOSTER
Uphill Writing
An afternoon run up the false summit
of every promising idea,
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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.
JEREMIAH FOSTER
MELANIE TAFEJIAN
Salt
Great pyramids of salt, line
the shore, coarse mounds
I’d like to climb, fly
down in a red sled.
ESTHER LIN
Season of Cherries
Sweeter, nearly cloying as you and I
eat and eat until the bag folds over.
JULEEN EUN SUN JOHNSON
Out of the Last Frontier
Out of swollen bellies and wild wind waves.
They feed the feathered beast.
They feed monsoon storm strumming out of the Gulf of Alaska.
CARLIE HOFFMAN
The Recursive
Not even the water, churning forever
in the river’s holiest mouth
would envy me.
CHARIF SHANAHAN
Self-Determination with the Question of Race
If latitude and longitude. If the trees,
Once emptied, stood upright again.
RENNIE AMENT
He Then Pledged
Remember me knee-deep.
Remember me kelp-bedecked.
PATRICK MILIAN
The Music Theories
You feel most fully
when you’re fleeing
JENNIFER CHANG
Two Poems
years rioting
against the fallacies of form
MICHAEL KLEBER-DIGGS
Source of My Confidence
Spring air races through rooms:
a joyous child.