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C.D. Wright
We love in silence
We keep our poetry
locked in a glass cabinet
Some nights We stay up
passing it back and
forth
between us
drinking deep
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- December 4, 2023
“What Keeps Us: A Community Poetry Reading in Response to Violence” is about bearing witness. Community members are invited to read aloud a poem from the collection below, which I have curated in collaboration with the Poetry Daily editorial review committee, or to sit in intentional silence.
Result Type
- What Sparks Poetry
Feature Date
- December 4, 2023
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- December 3, 2023
Nora Hikari
Did you know tears are sieved blood? Spit, too. We are just
one leaky vessel trying to keep everything in. Keep trying.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- December 2, 2023
Andrés Ajens (translated from the Spanish by Erín Moure)
a silence will have yet been spoken
prior to the saying, its time, language and its metaphors,
the ghastly potions, the wondrous ones, the neutral,
one silence intercalated / between one, ibid and none,
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- December 1, 2023
Christy Prahl
Here in the body museum,
women speaking Hungarian
rinse one another with buckets of water,
warmed from a spigot in a turquoise room.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- November 30, 2023
Najwan Darwish (translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid)
Your name's like a ship with no hope of arriving,
no hope of returning—
It never arrives, and it never returns.
It never arrives, and it never goes under.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- November 29, 2023
Jim Whiteside
a little point
of ignition, a place
where it wanted
to burn
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- November 28, 2023
Petra Kuppers
Hip bones sink and anchor on wood. Light rhythms paint the window.
My gullet is empty, endless, a void slick with ground glass festers
into pain, pulls me into time river, moonlight sucks down to snow.
Result Type
- Poem
Feature Date
- November 27, 2023
The sonnet is a device I often use, not necessarily as a formal frame but as a couplet structure to hold against my freewrite. This offers a scaffold toward something that can spread out on the page and take up space in the world.
Result Type
- What Sparks Poetry
Feature Date
- November 27, 2023
