Mauve Place
“There’s a mauve place you’ve forgotten,/ where you mothered dogs for a living…” Poem of the Week (August 5), by Chloe Stopa-Hunt.
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Excerpts from Kangarewe & Wittgenstein’s Whoopee Cushion
A selection of new work from Poetry World Cup winner Desmond Kon Zhicheng-Mingdé.
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Reconsecrated
“We hunted down/ politeness with iced vodka/ and flew outside, where the night/ took your tongue and gave it to mine.” Poem of the Week (July 22), by Janet Lees.
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Getting a Superstar Girlfriend
“We leered at each/ bright star sparkling over the city,/ even ones guarded by mist/ and asteroids like angry fathers…” Poem of the Week (July 15), by Inua Ellams.
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Little Mother
“Fleet-footed/ as a deer at seventy, Little Mother warms/ water for the family, cooks breakfast/ and dinner, tidies up the fallen decades.” Poem of the Week (July 8), by Usha Kishore.
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Tributary
“How could you not be captivated/ by her bohemian chic/ and dirty bare feet,/ voice chanting with sounds/ borrowed from our unrecorded past.” Poem of the Week (July 1), by Richard King Perkins II.
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You, wandering in search of light
“…you wandering in search of light/ Carrying a piece of sky on your broad shoulders,/ Fill my evening of breaths and oblivions/ With voices…” Poem of the Week (June 24), by Alisa Velaj. Translated from Albanian by Ukë Buçpapaj.
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Ekalavya
“Ekalavya, naïve disciple,/ Your guru preyed on your thumb/ With the eyes of a skillful vulture…” Poem of the Week (June 10), by Manash Bhattacharjee.
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Analogy
“My son,/ the world is not as warm and funny as your mother’s womb…” Poem of the Week (June 3), by Ikhda Ayuning Maharsi.
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dream house
“The rotting yellow farmhouse/ always the same…” Poem of the Week (May 27), by Daniel von der Embse.
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