Poem of the Week

This week we are excited to present “My Mother in Tanforan,” a new poem by Brian Komei Dempster. Brian Komei Dempster’s debut book of poetry, Topaz (Four Way Books, 2013),…    read more

This week we are delighted to present “Advice to a Migrant Collecting Dead Things Ever Since He Learned the Length of Walking,” a new poem by William Archila. William Archila…    read more

This week we are excited to present “On Recidivism,” a new poem by Cortney Lamar Charleston. Cortney Lamar Charleston is the author of Telepathologies, selected by D.A. Powell for the…    read more

This week we are excited to share a poem by our 2016 Editors’ Prize winner Karen Skolfield! To enter this year’s contest head on over to our contest page. Karen…    read more

This week, we’re delighted to present an excerpt from Michael Torres’s “All-American Mexican” series. Michael Torres was born and brought up in Pomona, California where he spent his adolescence as…    read more

This week we feature a new poem by Kenan Ince!   Kenan Ince is a queer, Turkish-American mathematician, poet, and organizer from Texas living on occupied Shoshone, Paiute, Goshute and…    read more

This week, we are excited to feature a new poem by Tanya Grae! Tanya Grae is the author of Undoll (YesYes, 2019), a National Poetry Series finalist, and the chapbook…    read more

This week, we are excited to present a poem by Meghann Plunkett, winner of the 2017 Jeffrey E. Smith Editors’ Prize in Poetry. To enter this year’s contest, check out…    read more

This week, we’re delighted to present a new poem by Emma Hine! Emma Hine’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in Arts & Letters, Gulf Coast, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Painted…    read more

This week we are delighted to present a poem by “Gil Orlovitz, poet,” by Gerard Malanga. Malanga has published twelve books of poetry, including Whisper Sweet Nothings & Other Poems…    read more