Ada Limón
...suffering all around, more stinging nettles and toxic blades shoved into the scarred parts of us, the minor ones underneath the trees. Rain comes while I’m still standing, a trickle...
Warsan Shire
...is an immigration office, your severed legs in the fourth, in the fifth a uterus—yours? The sixth opens with the right papers. I can’t get the refugee out of my...
Robyn Creswell
Robyn Creswell teaches comparative literature at Yale University and is a consulting editor for poetry at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He is the author of City of Beginnings: Poetic Modernism...
Susan Musgrave
...by Susan Musgrave, Exculpatory Lilies, McClelland & Stewart Hunger Susan Musgrave More about this poem See also Exculpatory Lilies Review CBC Books Poet’s Website Susan Musgrave Twitter Profile Instagram Profile...
Ocean Vuong
...memory becomes our body, and how the past can walk alongside us and open the doors of non-inherited grief and love. Time Is a Mother was written after the death...
Manolis Aligizakis
...wind unfolds their hair like a flag we want to saw we want to weave we want to give birth peace peace The wind rips the clouds open and suddenly...
Tongo Eisen-Martin
Four Walls
Kamau Brathwaite