Poetry

i will erect the new paradise / i will build and decorate it / LIKE a garden in an outgoing/incoming vessel / with ornamented walls / with a basin in the floor

Clowns, compost, and decomposition.

The artist and poet discusses his childhood as a first-generation Palestinian immigrant, the formation of selfhood in preadolescence, and the psychology of drifting.

When spectral voices, across time and place, meet in poetry.

The two writers stroll the streets of Manhattan to talk about Dimitrov’s new poetry collection, Love and Other Poems, which traces his affection for the city.

Translated by Eric M. B. Becker

The language and objects of collective dreaming.

A round-up of titles published by independent presses in 2020.

To create her compass poems, poet and programmer Allison Parrish trained a machine learning model with two parts: one spells words based on how they sound, and the other sounds out words based on how they’re spelled.

Poems told by a succubus with the thirst to die.

Two poets in conversation about the underworld, kissing life, and neurodivergence.

As an Indigenous poet, Belcourt is creating space for himself and his community in “a world we did not want, a world that we did not build for ourselves.”

All the experts say I’m sane.
Some even say I might acquire insight someday.

Increasingly, poems reach me physically, testing my physical and emotional boundaries—looking for places they might get inside, frequencies at which I might hear, poking at sensuous dead zones.

Baum’s work unearths and explores the incidental poetry of UFO sightings, dog-eared paperbacks, and obsolete artifacts like card catalogs.

The poet on her new book, maps as bodily marks, falling apart, and putting the pieces back together.