Val Rigodon
December Decima
November moon underground frozen Thaw in darkness, dream, rut, down there Buried in the soil church swelling with non human existence. Old…
Profile Type: Emerging Poets Fellow
Shalewa Mackall
Shalewa Mackall is inspired by aesthetic traditions and creative movements that recycle, repurpose, and reinvent. Layering identity and experience, Mackall writes, teaches, bakes,…
Catherine Chen
https://ENTER.com
Productivity by another name is the automation of authenticity: will you trust her to respond with accuracy? I’m digressing. A drowning. Begrudged…
Charlene François
unlivable city
my body wakes spent. all night my eyes have acted as valves of the questions. if the body is the answer…
Sarah Sala
Blue Dog Blue Dog
Mid-sentence while teaching a freshman seminar, a stranger
in a blue dog costume enters. Blue Dog paces…
James Fujinami Moore
midnight at Banshee
A dead boy walks into a bar and orders a drink and the bartender says We don’t serve your…
Nicole Wallace
MY GIRL, MY GIRL
named after a street conceived after a kegger
the further away we get
this fine…
Kiran Bath
Kiran Bath is a poet and essayist from Brooklyn by way of Sydney. She is a 2019 Poets House Fellow and has received…
Rabih Ahmed
Deficit
I am a Bronx girl faintly fatigued from writing Bronx poems & about the deficit in Bronx schools that somehow creep up…