F Categories Poetry March, 2025 Four poems by Bhaswati Ghosh Four poems from Bhaswati Ghosh's collection Nostalgic for a Place Never Seen.
A Categories Poetry March, 2025 A Universe Teeming with Life You drown each taco in a habanero sauce that alarming shade of orange exclusively reserved for traffic
T Categories Poetry March, 2025 TRAIN TO BACK BAY Your terrific postcard—that bloke swinging her / hips high to the harmonica, swindling / p.m. to a.m. My masala and sugar steep between / my thighs.
O Categories Poetry March, 2025 Omori’s Law a boy had become pinned between a screen and a hard place since then I only ever listened with one ear so I could hear it coming
U Categories Poetry March, 2025 Uncharmed Aroma Desire coats the room, his scorching tongue licks her dainty neck. Her wax begins to wither—blistering from an unwavering torch. Too consumed in blazing fervor.
Y Categories Poetry March, 2025 Your breath thin as wires Consider a distance measured in black wires or one in buoys, their slow dissonant arcs of red over the water.
E Categories Poetry March, 2025 Evolutionary Ecology I’m letting fish and turtles Swim to the edges of this coastal river
R Categories Poetry February, 2025 River Rock The last time we met, he read me a line about how life is good though not fair.
E Categories Poetry February, 2025 Everybody Leaves Today, on the broken-tiles of your sleeping house, we are both in the clouds again.
C Categories Poetry February, 2025 Coherence She loved the sound so much, she did all the gutting after that. I enjoyed the feeling of washing the dishes,
G Categories Poetry February, 2025 Gulab Jamun Not a day goes by without the auto horns, Or the political instability, Or chai,
i Categories Poetry February, 2025 i think of you often and fondly it’s not like you’re the one that got away— i let you go, i let you go, i let you go
T Categories Poetry Translations January, 2025 Three Poems by Gavrila Derzhavin in Translation Peter Orte and John Hamel present translations of Derzhavin's three poems.
r Categories Poetry January, 2025 red bean I spend the forty-five minutes warming up, front-kicking & later getting my back straightened by sabumnim on the hard-wood, eyes
H Categories Poetry January, 2025 Hippopotamus Rain I’ve developed an obsession with unabridged, rambling, disordered lists:
Z Categories Poetry January, 2025 Zoomorph He sits cross-legged in the slant- light that cleaves a plane in the cave floor, a line that recedes with the sun
F Categories Poetry January, 2025 Finding the Center Round and brown, he hops amid the spikey chaos of salmon berry, tail upright, body shaking with what one ornithologist called
K Categories Poetry January, 2025 Kaleidoscope Girl “Not even skin that sparkles should be shown, You Lilith. You lady of the night, dancing like no one can see you. Who do you think you are?”
S Categories Poetry January, 2025 South Fork Yuba Equinox And we two are caught once again between the thing and its reflection.
A Categories Poetry January, 2025 A Brief History of My First Marriage 1969 Chinook, the Snow Eater, drools. Electric lavender shimmers down its scaley silver cheeks.
T Categories Poetry November, 2024 The Greatest Poem Ever Written But. The greatest poem ever written, also must be a war poem,