Refugee Child
“he is a blue child/ who came out of the sea/ in an orange dream…”
A poem against borders, by Usha Kishore.
Your Mystery is the Milky Way
“: Who wants most when the wave is weary?/ : Who’s marred most when the map is missing?”
A poem against borders, by Nathalie Handal.
Mediterranean Lyric
“hope is a sea-/ storm’s kindling…”
A poem against borders, by Khairani Barokka.
The Red Tree
“A few snowflakes fall between the tree and the hollow ground. Those yew trees are grown over the fence now…”
A poem against borders, by Julia Rose Lewis.
Portrait of a Girl at the Border Wall
“where do I put her?/ this girl pressed against the border/ this girl swallowing her papers whole…”
A poem against borders, by Sarah Lubala.
Midnight Train to Georgia
“Didn’t you know/ I was afraid to count the music/ on your side of midnight…”
A poem against borders, by Nathalie Handal.
Poet of the Month: Lauren Camp
“With writing, I have so much engagement inside of me: the breath and music of the words as they fill the page, the themes, and the urgency of what must be caught before it disappears…”
Lauren Camp, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Katy Lewis Hood.
Mythmaking
“We will both skitter and yield in the coming months,/ like the surface of unbuilt ice.”
Poem of the Week (February 1), by Hala Alyan.
My mother calls me Srikandi
“A wren/ Of a beached thing, flailing, always once/ Something else.”
Poem of the Week (January 4), by Khairani Barokka.
Lately, I keep crossing
“I think about the woman with the palest skin/ sitting across the table from me. Think most/ of the cavernous spaces opaque by her eyes.”
Poem of the Week (December 21), by Lauren Camp.