Poetry

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June 2023 / Poetry

Honey Crisp

July 11, 2023July 10, 2023 - by Molly Peacock

Hello soft wrinkled / face in my palms.

May 2023 / Poetry

Seascape with Buoy

May 2, 2023May 1, 2023 - by Vanessa Stauffer

It layers and piles, swells and doesn’t fall. / I can’t remember anything at all.

May 2023 / Poetry

Invaders

April 25, 2023April 24, 2023 - by Alex Boyd

Returning from the mall with my mother, I’d freeze, / there being no polite way to wake him

Black and white photo of Ricardo Sternberg on an orange background.

March/April 2023 / Poetry

Aubade

April 4, 2023April 3, 2023 - by Ricardo Sternberg

Was it within the song / or within himself

March/April 2023 / Poetry

Defeat

March 9, 2023March 8, 2023 - by Anita Lahey

I submit to winter’s / half-melt shame and kneel / before summer’s trumped-up / flames.

January/February 2023 / Poetry

A Love Poem for Steven Page

February 7, 2023February 10, 2023 - by Julie Mannell

I’ve had others. I could be what’s been done, / I could be your Yoko—I hated you on MTV—Ono.

January/February 2023 / Poetry

Woody Strode, Black Cowboy

January 31, 2023February 6, 2023 - by Bertrand Bickersteth

If you act like a nobody, / you are a nobody. The actor / Woody Strode wasn’t / just any nobody.

January/February 2023 / Poetry

Acacia

January 19, 2023January 19, 2023 - by Julie Bruck

I wonder how it feels—he asked nobody
in particular, to want anything that much?

December 2022 / Poetry

November Run

December 8, 2022 - by Richard Sanger

and now you hang on my shoulder / as I lead the way, taking you on, pressing the pace

Poet Billy-Ray Belcourt in front of an orange background

December 2022 / Poetry

Autofiction

December 1, 2022 - by Billy-Ray Belcourt

Have I always been in the world? / No, I’ve been autumn in the middle of August.

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