How I wish the sea would come
visit the streets of Kabul and bring
all its fish, no matter what their color.
Poetry
The Street of Dolphins by Mujib Mehrdad
After 13 Years of Alzheimer’s, My Grandfather Spoke.
by Caleigh Shaw
The next morning, she imagined thousands of blooms the blue Melvin’s work shirts used to be.
[via negativa
by Erin Wilson
a loaf of bread + a loaf of bread
equaled your small body
a loaf of bread + a fire
equaled a bird in a wood stove
This Body I Have Tried to Write
by Ja’net Danielo
Who among us hasn’t wanted to kill the sweetest thing?
Three Poems by Argyris Stavropoulos
translated from the Greek by Gigi Papoulias
“At last moving day has arrived.
From today, another house, indeed more spacious and airy
drenched in nonnegotiable sunlight, will accommodate me
and all the things the movers are struggling to carry…”
Motherhood and Mental Illness: On Blue by Erin Wilson
by Emilee Kinney
For a collection steeped in drowning, Wilson continuously keeps readers afloat, buoyed by the promise and ever-present force of a mother’s love.
Answer Yes Or No by Khairi Hamdan
translated from the Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova
Answer the call of the flute—
the lost impulse of the absent poets,
the incomplete painting, the unrained cloud,
the prophecy of an upcoming confession—
From Decarceration by Charline Lambert
Translated from the French by John Taylor
Before grasping, taking
the pulse,
consider the litigation
Montale and Martins
Translated by Richard Price
Haul your paper ships up the scorched shore
and then sleep, little-boy captain –
may you never hear the evil spirits
sailing now in flocks.
2022 Micro-Chapbook Poetry Contest Results!
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