Round 1: Bangladesh-Venezuela
The opening match of The Missing Slate’s Poetry World Cup.
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Poetry World Cup 2014
A full overview of The Missing Slate’s 2014 Poetry World Cup along with links to live matches.
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Simple Complex Shapes
“Take her by the hand,/ by the hair,/…lead her/ to the sea/ …the pinhead/ where, if she’s to dance,/ she’ll enjoy horizons.” By Vahni Capildeo, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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Outside the Courthouse
“…the colonel/ with his special bloody unit,/ …the preacher preaching of gifts/ waiting on the other side/ of these shadows.” By Kwame Dawes, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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Canvas
“…in this tiny tumble-down dwelling,/ small village children stood, not on a bare/ dirt-floor, but tiptoe at the rim of the world.” By Esther Phillips, part of our Caribbean writers feature.
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Wait, Listen, If
“what place at the end of the world/ would have been vast and silent enough/ for me to take your hand…” By Ryan Van Winkle, from our eighth issue.
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The Bumblebee Dreams
“She does not dream of her death, nor play scholar/ to the deaths of her colleagues, whom she mourns/ with only the faintest fizzing.” By Jon Stone, from our eighth issue.
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Poem for Clothes Left in Another Country
“Sometimes you come back to me, invoked by accident/ …and I am/ seduced, unstitched with the thought of you.” By Sharanya Manivannan, from our seventh issue.
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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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For La Llorona
“come when the rains/ will not stain your/ lily-white shroud// where the sun/ will not freeze/ your blood…” Weekend poem, by David Ishaya Osu.
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