JOE HALL
I Hate That You Died
the news: yr dead, I look /
at the page, grow /
broken at the root
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Weekly poems, selected by the editors. Featuring new work as well as poems from our rich archives.
JOE HALL
MAHMOUD DARWISH
Here They Are the Words
Here they are the words fluttering in the mind
RACHEL MORGENSTERN-CLARREN
Saline Pulse
my love / unwinding / the rope
KRISTEN STEENBEEKE
i go through phases
sometimes i crouch like a creature in my house
MICHAEL PRIOR
Two Poems
If a memory bears radiation’s / relationship to time
ANNA MARIA HONG
Maiden
Other birds punctuate (our) song
MEGAN FENNYA JONES
In the City We Sleep
Probably most words / should be fully felt but never said
ALEX GALLO-BROWN He Was a Worker
so banal a demand it went unnoticed
ADAM CLAY Now Warm and Capable
The week-before-last Ada asked Michael and I /
if we believed in God, a higher power, /
a whatever.
KARY WAYSON Two Poems
Is it freedom from or of?