poetry-magazineStacking Cistern My Bones on Top of Your Bones on Top of Your BonesBy Gabrielle CalvocoressiNot an optimist. I lie awake at night and say the nameof everyone on the block and for three blocks … Related Audio LivingThe MindDoubt & ContemplationRelationshipsAnxiety & InsecurityOptimism
poetry-magazineMontana Love SequenceBy Shann Rayi . sorrow is the curved ribcage of a beautiful death, the elk’s arched bones visible in the morning… Related Audio LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & LossNatureLandscapes & PastoralsReligionGod & the DivineGriefMelancholy & Despair + 2 more
poetry-magazineThe Law of Large NumbersBy Courtney KampaA man sits across from me, patterned silk padlockat his neck and orders us whateverpeople drink from…LivingThe MindDoubt & ContemplationLoneliness
poetry-magazineI Read a Post That Said You Went PeacefullyBy Darius Simpsonbut i know better. i know poets like you don’t do no half-steppin. especially not on your way out. especially… Related Audio LivingDeathSorrow & GrievingGrief
poetry-magazineA Conversation with My Mother About the Bloodstains on My ShirtBy Darius Simpsondo you remember in fifth gradewhen i was all of eighty poundssoaking wet and fully clothedi told you… Related Audio Social CommentariesClassMoney & EconomicsRace & EthnicityWar & ConflictHistory & PoliticsAngerGrief
poetry-magazineKarma Affirmation Cistern Don’t Be Afraid Keep Going Toward the HorrorBy Gabrielle CalvocoressiRemember how you didn’t fall yesterdayeven though you thought you would?Life can be like that all the… Related Audio The MindDoubt & ContemplationTime & BrevityAnxiety & Insecurity
poetry-magazineElegy at Middle RiverBy Courtney KampaIt’s an hour before noon, and Amtrak train no. 56 rips a paththrough the rain outside Baltimore,its …ActivitiesTravels & JourneysMelancholy & Despair
Man and the AnimalsBy Umberto SabaMan, your misfortune’s bottomless.You’re too much and too little. You surveywith envy (though you think…NatureAnimalsSocial CommentariesBlameDisappointment
PostludeBy Rita DoveYou prefer me invisible, no more thana crisp salute far away fromyour silks and firewood and woolens…NatureSocial CommentariesTown & Country LifeLivingBlame
Dear Robert, IBy Pierre Joriswake up in pre-dawn Brooklyn,make water, heat water, squeezelemon, crush home-grown (at Joseph’son 68th…RelationshipsFriends & EnemiesHome LifeTypes/ModesEpistleJoy & Contentment
Shakespeare’s sonnet #71, re-Englished after Paul Celan’s German version without consulting the original:By Pierre JorisYou should, once I’m gone, mourn only as longas you hear the bell, the dark one, from the tower;as long…LivingDeathRelationshipsGrief
A Poem in Luxembourgish on New YorkBy Pierre JorisIt wasn’t even around Pentecost and nothing was flowering but it was an overheated day …Social CommentariesCities & Urban LifeLivingJoy & Contentment
poetry-magazineKamauBy Anthony JosephFor Kamau, for the furtive sound of his phonaesthetic exegesis, for his secret technology of liquid … Related Audio Social CommentariesRace & EthnicityTime & BrevityArts & SciencesPoetry & PoetsPassion
poetry-magazineOur FounderBy Samatar ElmiWho art in Cali.Programmer by trade.Thy start-up come,thy will becomean FTSE 500.Give us this day our… Related Audio Social CommentariesClassMoney & EconomicsPopular CultureReligionArts & SciencesHumor & SatireHumor
poetry-magazinePreachingBy Roger RobinsonUnder the billowing heat of the whitetarpaulin church tent, my mother loweredher worshipping hands and… Related Audio ReligionFaith & DoubtLivingDeathSorrow & GrievingRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsGrief
poetry-magazineIn the Absence of a Name Noah’s Wife Sings Her Own Praise SongBy Malika Bookeri. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the lord and thus formed the habit of my non-naming, there … Related Audio Social CommentariesGender & SexualityRace & EthnicityHistory & PoliticsReligionChristianityLivingDeathRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsGrief + 4 more
poetry-magazineDynamic Disks, 1933By Raymond AntrobusMy phone memory is full of canvases I have cried in front of— circles, holes— Shadows on water. ___… Related Audio LoveBreak-ups & Vexed LoveHeartache & LossRelationshipsArts & SciencesPainting & SculptureGrief
poetry-magazineCrossBy Rajiv MohabirTo mourn an impossible life—we have become objects of a Kingwe will never see.All water has become black… Related Audio LivingSorrow & GrievingThe MindDoubt & ContemplationGrief
poetry-magazineThe Room of the ElderBy Linda HoganSleep with your face visible so the young will remember you are with them. You want the others to see…LivingGrowing OldHealth & IllnessRelationshipsHome LifeOptimism
poetry-magazineRaucous PrayerBy Patrick RosalHere, my one raucous prayercoaxed from this poor drum,my double heart, under a beat-up slatof divine…ReligionGod & the DivineOptimismPassion