Poetry

A photo of poet Molly Peacock against a red background

December 2021 / Poetry

Today My Task Is the Codicil

November 23, 2021 - by Molly Peacock

I’ve had my pomegranate life. / Seeds sluicing red . . . Rose affection

Black and white portrait of Kayla Czaga against a green background.

December 2021 / Poetry

Coho

November 18, 2021 - by Kayla Czaga

My father knelt down at the river’s edge / to unhook it. He cupped it in his palms

Black and white photograph of Virginia Konchan against a purple background.

November 2021 / Poetry

Joyride

October 29, 2021October 29, 2021 - by Virginia Konchan

I came into this world bringing only paper, rope, shadow

Photo illustration of the poet Matt Robinson

November 2021 / Poetry

The Pickup Skater

October 14, 2021 - by Matt Robinson

His passes—those on-ice / em dashes—as silky or fit-to-be-tied as jaunty cravats

Black and white photo of poet Matt Rader superimposed on an orange background.

Poetry / September/October 2021

We Knew What Was Coming

September 10, 2021 - by Matt Rader

We knew what was / Coming—the outburst / Of green

Poetry / September/October 2021

Myth

August 27, 2021 - by Terese Mason Pierre

You’d rather die by myth, / come upon the villains of your / mother’s bedtime stories

Poetry / September/October 2021

Soil

August 20, 2021 - by Bertrand Bickersteth

A field is / just the fist side / of a fact

Poetry

After You

July 23, 2021 - by Brian Wickers

After you left / us, I was left / feeling you’d leapt / through a door swept

The legs of two people, both reading and reclining on beach chairs, are in the foreground. They are facing a lake and trees with a bright sun overhead.

Fiction / Poetry

Summer Reading 2021

July 2, 2021August 10, 2021 - by The Walrus Staff

New fiction and poetry for the times we live in

Photo of poet Armand Garnet Ruffo with orange background

July/August 2021 / Poetry

Observed and Observing, That’s Him

July 2, 2021June 29, 2021 - by Armand Garnet Ruffo

From his vantage, he has a bird’s eye view / and he can see they are doing their best / to ignore the dark sky

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