She Plays a Child’s Game
“The windows are red/ and ringing with silhouettes.”
Poem of the Week (December 14), by Mishka Hoosen.
White Flesh, Yellow Dust
“Now there is just stillness,/ a silence not quiet, but alive/ inside the muted grace of winter light.”
Poem of the Week (December 7), by Rachel Heimowitz.
Radcliffe Line
“The line/ reincarnating as a fragile ceasefire margin,/ that moves to and fro with glacier tilt”
Poem of the Week (November 30), by Usha Kishore.
The Best Medicine
“Inside is a black verse. Black like the womb of a deep river/ too black for this porcelain room…”
Poem of the Week (November 2), by Juleus Ghunta.
While Watching the Latest Clip Out of Douma, Syria,
“God is great,// he begs aloud—again and again,/ as if repetition could make that be,// make that true…” Poem of the Week (October 19), by Tara Ballard.
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a dua for the masses
“This is… for you who cut yourselves open to feel something already lost, /for you who skip prayers to smoke…”
Poem of the Week (September 28)
“I came to go back the favour”
“Not knowing they were medically induced/ he married her for steady eyes,/ lingering vowels, for,/ in the library, her drawing of vinegary pens/ over print….” Poem of the Week (September 21), by Hannah January.
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Rosie
“This blonde and grey-eyed woman,/ her fingers combing a prisoner’s hair/ in a barn, a field, a hidden somewhere/ in that wartime summer.” Poem of the Week (August 31), by Harold Hoefle.
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jazz
“…inside a wardrobe/ a wardrobe sings/ around a barman…” Weekend Poem, by Wale Owoade.
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MedellÃn
“I said no, not this moment,/ but still I glided through music, puzzle pieces,/ fitting rooms…” Poem of the Week (June 15), by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad.
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