poetry-magazineVessel with Two Feet, ca. 1000–800 BCEBy Shireen MadonIt’s as though the birds all know each other, and how naively they seem to believe the world will go… Related Audio NatureAnimalsHistory & PoliticsTime & BrevityArts & SciencesPainting & SculptureTypes/ModesEkphrasis
poetry-magazineArles, WhidbeyBy Reed TurchiDeltaic deposits deepen hues—not green, but that green,not blue, but that blue—In the small museum,a… Related Audio NatureLandscapes & PastoralsArts & SciencesPainting & Sculpture
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-magazineFrom “Rock Paintings in Alxa”By Wen GuRain breaks on black rocksStars fall, one by one, on blue stonesA thousand years, ten thousand years… Related Audio History & PoliticsRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsArts & SciencesPainting & Sculpture
poetry-magazine阿拉善右旗走笔—曼德拉山脉岩画By Wen Gu黑色的岩石上,雨珠碎裂青色的岩石上,星星一滴一滴溅落一千年、一万年,古老的风在唱:“一万个、一千个,相似的夜晚”骆驼的背后,有历史的风暴升起山羊的唇角,留着沙葱花的清香别问我们祖先们的秘密闪电已经刻在… Related Audio History & PoliticsRelationshipsFamily & AncestorsArts & SciencesPainting & Sculpture
Archaic Torso of ApolloBy Rainer Maria RilkeWe cannot know his legendary headwith eyes like ripening fruit. And yet his torsois still suffused with…Arts & SciencesPainting & Sculpture
Poem After Betye Saar's The Liberation of Aunt JemimaBy Ama CodjoeWhat if, Betye, instead of a rifle or hand grenade—I mean, what if after the loaded gun that takes two… Related Audio Social CommentariesRace & EthnicityArts & SciencesPainting & SculptureTypes/ModesEkphrasis
poetry-magazineEroica 1By Nick Makohai. samo© as an alternative to blah ... blahblahblah. blahzooey ... bblahblah quasi-blah ... etc. (in… Related Audio Social CommentariesPopular CultureArts & SciencesPainting & Sculpture
poetry-magazineCODEX©By Nick Makoha SAMO© first appears as a tag on a New York City wall in 1978 two blocks down from Aswad bookstore… Related Audio Social CommentariesCities & Urban LifePopular CultureArts & SciencesPainting & SculpturePhotography & Film
poetry-magazineWhat Draws Us TogetherBy Harryette MullenWhen we come together, what shapes the space around, defines the ground between us? Which hand sketches… Related Audio LoveRelationshipsArts & SciencesPainting & Sculpture
poetry-magazineSpottedBy Kwame Dawesthe wounds of a walk foot man ii On a flight from perpetually clogged and flatly bright LA to the proudly… Related Audio The BodyArts & SciencesPainting & Sculpture
poetry-magazineChiaroscuro Spring timeBy Cyrus CassellsThat was the season I couldn’t think or write indoors, the garrulous springtime every strophe, every…NatureSpringArts & SciencesPainting & Sculpture
poetry-magazineAvenue of Plane TreesBy Jodie HollanderThings are growing strange these days, like Van Gogh’s yellow trees. Oh, do not be surprised by these… Related Audio NatureTime & BrevityArts & SciencesPainting & Sculpture
Silent SpreadBy S.J. Fowler & Rebecca KamenSIR, the 28 spheres of Kamen’s harmony Susceptible, inferred, immense, actual - the electron microscopy… Related Audio NatureAnimalsSocial CommentariesHistory & PoliticsLivingHealth & IllnessArts & SciencesPainting & SculptureSciencesTypes/ModesEkphrasisAnxiety & InsecurityGrief + 6 more
Los Angeles, Fin de SiècleBy Maurya SimonDelirium in the downtown mall today: Burt Reynolds! All the henna-haired girls sneer, while their mothers…Social CommentariesCities & Urban LifeClassMoney & EconomicsPopular CultureLivingThe MindMemory & NostalgiaTime & BrevityArts & SciencesPainting & SculpturePhotography & FilmStanza FormsTercetMetersFree VerseTechniquesImagery + 11 more
poetry-magazineLearning to PaintBy D. A. PowellFirstly to confess lack of nearly all perspective. Eye sees things at the ends of stalks of the mind… Related Audio Arts & SciencesPainting & Sculpture
Paper-Quilled Self-PortraitBy Tea GerbezaI dip my paper strip in colours of scoliosis, white my spine, mounted snow-covered heart fields in … Related Audio The BodyArts & SciencesPainting & Sculpture
poetry-magazineDiptychBy Kevin Youngnight watch You can fall in love in a museum, but only with the art or its silence—or the stranger…LoveLivingArts & SciencesPainting & SculptureJoy & ContentmentMelancholy & Despair
poetry-magazineBreed MeBy Richie HofmannMy sweat soaked the sheets. You used to be like everyone else but then the way you hurt me (fingers… Related Audio LoveDesire & PassionLivingLife ChoicesThe BodyRelationshipsLGBTQ+Arts & SciencesPainting & SculptureMetersFree VerseTechniquesAllusionImageryMetaphorPassion + 9 more
True FreshBy Genevieve ArlieThe geometer wishes he were David cut from stone by lightning, his mind gyring wide into figures of… Related Audio ReligionGod & the DivineLivingLife ChoicesThe BodyThe MindTime & BrevityArts & SciencesPainting & SculptureStanza FormsCoupletMetersFree VerseTechniquesAllusionImageryMetaphorSimile + 11 more