13 Ergebnisse.

Dimitri Reyes' first collection, Papi Pichón, is an Ars Poetica response to the Caribbean paradox where using words as categorically simple as "Puerto Rican" in an attempt to identify the complex amalgamations of African, Indigenous, Spanish, and beyond can only be described fully through myth. Where the cultural concepts that transcend history and lineage themselves become mythology. The Papi Pichón (Father Pigeon) figure works as an omnipres...

In The Little Deaths, Mercy Tullis-Bukhari shows us existential rebirths in everyday human interactions. The poems in this collection reveal self-discovery, human connection to the earth and to nature. The poet attempts to reconcile aging and the fear of death. Meanwhile, the influence of traditional Catholic beliefs and ideologies whither under the weight of life's realities. Through disillusionment and trauma, the speaker in these poems expl...

Kathy Engel's poetry collection, The Lost Brother Alphabet, is both ode and elegy, a song of grief and the tenacity of love made into the living and feeling word. Engel's poems seek understanding and beauty as the speaker seeks to keep living and to continue remembering.

In Future Botanic Christina Olivares continues her interrogation of inheritance, history, legacy, queer love, and what is owed. From the Bronx to Cuba, the poetic voice and the poetic soul's eye is relentlessly, and yet tenderly, vigilant in seeing the world. Olivares' poems are lyrical meditations- in some cases, spells- that embody, vivify and reckon with the geography of the Americas and the centuries-long postcolonial condition.

Unquenchable longings pulsate through Brancaccio's version of a book of the dead. A recurring character-voice the poet trusts as "ghost girl" peels off and records layers upon layers of brutal human geometries. Circles and cells, "mausoleum[s] to empire, " "breast/of resentment, " lost vowels, all signal shapes a world possesses. I hear Lessing and Rich, Clifton and Sexton, accompanying Brancaccio as she explodes both the myths and the realiti...

In Cleave (vb: 1. to adhere firmly & closely, loyally & unwaveringly / 2. to divide by or as if by a cutting blow: split), Darla Himeles writes a path of transformation. In vivid, attentive poems that explore early trauma, various meanings & makings of home, & the struggle to conceive, Cleave offers songs of survival, forgiveness, familial & lesbian love, & being "alive & determined to live all the way to the unfathomable depths / I once calle...

In All the Stars Aflame, Malik Abduh journeys to various places in our history - shapeshifting, listening, bearing witness, and returning to the present to offer us impressions, portraits, the local evidence of rage and love. This debut collection is more than a decade in the making from a poet who composes with impressive scholarly attention, while remaining delighted in language and scene-making. Abduh's craft is spiritually attuned to a fev...

In Anu Mahadev's A mouthful of sky, sensual and sexual pleasures, joys, and freedoms are woven together with gendered inequities, misogyny, and cruelty. The narrator is exceedingly matter-of-factly vulnerable and courageous as she shows the complexities, contradictions, cruelties, and depths of this relationship with complete self-acceptance. With a solid certainty in spite of circumstances. And with forthright insistence of her own pleasure. ...

Gail Langstroth's firegarden is a collection of intimate and "between" spaces through which a woman honors the life she's lived. Urgent meditations are born of "the smallest piece of ocean, " dropped stitches, and the daily need for milk and bread. These sparse poems are marked with the flames and ash of loss, but draw strength from a resilient and transient natural world. Langstroth captures the raw fire of emotions we often struggle to ...

In turn around BRXGHT XYXS, Rosebud Ben-Oni opens by summoning Matarose-her alter-ego "muse on roller skates"-a wildly original voice that channels K-pop, hip hop, and the intersectional mestiza soul of the entire borough of Queens to create a sound-driven howling lyric paean-an ecstatic queer broken love-song that's equal parts Bonnie Tyler and bible, Prince and prayer, and 100% pure desire. Ben-Oni's poems conjure fierce feminist magic to cr...

Wild Invocations is that moment that happens sometimes at a bombazo when you realize that you're watching a woman dance, but also witnessing the dancing of all the generations who meet inside her. And that their dancing is filled with both a listening for the routes and a burning of the routes. History blooming and being ravaged all at once. These poems are, for me, that moment: Mighty and elemental, inventive and imaginative-with an ear to th...

Len Lawson's Chime is the rough melody reverberating from the whirlwind of these times and past times touching the singular and collective Black body. While the poems have a broad preoccupation with mortality and trauma, they are ultimately life-affirming. This collection reminds us that the grief and anxiety in the Black community are only recognition that what is far too often, too brutally and too unjustly lost is substantial, important and...

Look at Darla Himeles, there on the razor's edge of survival as a Jew, note-taker of past and future extinctions, a poet fearless of science, unafraid of love or laughter. Listen as she sings love songs to the cephalopod dead, the manatees' eyes "cataracted by microplastics, " and the Colorado that "forgets it's a river." Smile as she imagines T.S. Eliot becoming a blue crab. Meditate with her on our own eyes, possible "reservoirs of the Anthr...