Poem of the Day
Second Dream
By C. S. Giscombe
In my experience—waking
life—nothing had readied me for such an arrival.
Poetry: 2020s
Cat in Portrait
By Mirta Rosenberg
One dreams / with cats / when one / is outside oneself.
Summer Letters
By Lewis Meyers
While I wrote, a butterfly, that critic, rode my wrist.
Antwerp (2)
By Jonathan Thirkield
The doctor had said he could fix everything / Except the eyes.
Ex-Stewardess
By Leopoldine Core
I memorized / my whole life in order / to release it
Armed Cavalier
By Richie Hofmann
The end of autumn / unfolds in a series of textures and places: / rough towels, the laundry, / the green walls of a place I belonged to.
from “Flag”
By Imani Elizabeth Jackson
It will continue to break, and soon, sing, elated by time, after the fact, and failure
Kings
By Jessica Laser
As a girl, that’s how you made it / to first base. You didn’t kiss, / you were kissed.
Holding a Book I Haven’t Read for Many Years
By Malachi Black
I slept in the back seat like a bad thought.
from “36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem”
By Nam Le
And Cathay was not China.
And Vietnam was not China
Nor made in China—but close enough.
“I stole the yellow bird …”
By Joyce Mansour
He will teach me how to seduce / Men, stags, double-winged angels