“The vanishing trail led to a tangle of chicories — / to the scythes still swinging over the bloodied / beer cans, whiskey bottles, oak tree stump”
Founded in 1977 at Columbia University's School of the Arts
“The vanishing trail led to a tangle of chicories — / to the scythes still swinging over the bloodied / beer cans, whiskey bottles, oak tree stump”
Danez Smith’s newest poetry collection sparkles with warmth and acceptance.
“This day and age, it’s hard to just / absolutely vanish.”
“I was not as I wanted / a contrail dissipating / instead I was a woman”
“I want to sew you into my hair, bury you / in my womb, fill my shoes with your powdered petals.”
“His photography was showcased in New York City, Paris, Mexico City, and, of course, Hell.”
“The ocean is all the years we won’t meet again”
“how we in love performed / a spine”
The winner of the 2018 Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award, Cameron Awkward-Rich’s new collection “Dispatch” grapples with ‘the pains of navigating dailiness in a body’ subjected to systematic American violence.
“the power to see ourselves / in sculpted figures, caged / in stars.”
that Sunday when you / preached all nightmares are / the dead / telling us to confess
“I don’t feed the dead, / but last night I spoke with them.”
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