À Propos Ravens The Flying Raven, Édouard Manet, Ex Libris for The Raven (Le Corbeau) by Edgar Allan Poe, French Edition, Trans. Stéphane Mallarmé, (1875) You take the folding chair outdoors facing the ocean. Pencils. The book. The papers. There will be further postponements. The calling and quothing of ravens makes it impossible to hear …
Poetry@Tech, Detainee Allies, and Poetry International are delighted to share the results of the Dignity Not Detention Prize. When we began this project, we had no idea how widely it would reach into the world: poets from three continents sent work for consideration. The winners, runners-up, and finalists include a broad range of poets: some …
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Self-Reflection Apparently, St. Margaret was so pious that she was indigestible when the dragon tried to swallow her. The dragon didn’t want her, was repelled by her, and saw her as alien. She was both easy to resist, yet also irresistible. It often feels like I am of the same flock. I repel; I reject; …
Dana Roeser’s fourth book, All Transparent Things Need Thundershirts, won the Wilder Prize at Two Sylvias Press and was published in September 2019. She is also the author of The Theme of Tonight’s Party Has Been Changed, recipient of the Juniper Prize, as well as Beautiful Motion and In the Truth Room, both winners of …
ICEBOX 1. To The Gladiator in the Rogue Arena Gladiator, whose steely prowess is in service To a rogue arena, A sullying Caesar, With-us-or-against-us strongman, Confess: are they daunting beasts In those borderland cages, or children? Children! Then go and rescue them from the ruffian world! 2. Those “RETURN TO SENDERS” Children Separated, the …
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CREATION MYTH CREATION MYTH In the beginning there was no way to say in the beginning.There was only the ah! of those with lice and itches who were happystartled by the seemingly miraculous growth of their fingernails, underscored in dirt. In the beginning could only be mortared together by someone who had felt …
I love how poems of the spirit insist on what is perennial in us, beyond the immediate social and political contexts we find ourselves in. As Kwame Dawes writes in a new poem included here, “The carrier of wood . . . will walk daily to the / shrine no matter who sits on the …
Poems of the Spirit: a selection of poems, edited by Luke Hankins Read More »
from KEEL II. The past survives inside my mind: somehow they are still alive: all their bodies side-by-side surface, blister sea to breathe azure. Above, below, above their eyes sunk below the gulf, labia sunrise knives, refracts and yaws, which warps the tongue-reed and water-mouthed. Salt and dulse drapes like hoarfrost from their ghosts. Crowned …
The Three Hour Siege on the Caddo Parish Jail Shreveport, Louisiana, May 12, 1914 A thousand men had battered steel doors with railroad irons, and then hacksawed their way through the bars, to drag Hamilton from his cell, and tighten a fresh, hemp rope around his dark, thin neck, his screams lost to …
Your poem, Some Woman, speaks powerfully, voicing both the outrage, and witness, of what it means to live in our time. Could you please speak about your influences, what other writers have impacted your work, your vision? “Some Woman” is a poem about the culture of rape. Now that culture is changing because we write …