LATEST IN POETRY
Take It from Someone Who Knows by Hanna Thomas Uose
Hanna teaches you how to love yourself.
Lost Ones by Lebo Disele
Lebo’s poem makes us question the reasons we grieve.
Womanhood by Liz Chadwick Pywell
What does womanhood mean to you?
Onomatopoeia of Lost Words by Maryam Gowralli
Maryam draws inspiration from her diasporic Trinidadian-Indian and Indonesian tribal heritage.
Portra by the Sea by Autumn Stiles
What of the fisherman skulks / in your heart? / What husks of hull sit rusting / ironed dull by sea over / sand over sea?
Tess and Friends Try On Selves Like Swimsuits by Dia Roth
We try on bodies—like them, long / for them—then try others. Somewhere / between hunger and earnest thirst, / we shapeshift.
Haud Yer Wheesht (Hold Your Tongue) by Lindz McLeod
Love leaves me whole, / a pockmarked moon. / Pared wounds knitted together / by chewing ants, each / champing tiny jaws over my flesh.
Anorexic Erotic Dream by Becca McGilloway
In a bathtub / rimmed in lime / basil salts, I take / a spoon
Whip Stitch by Becca McGilloway
I used to sew / along the edge of my body / – to interrupt / the Mare unraveling / my stitched skin.
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María, Patron Saint of Freaks by Mariana Goycoechea
You were a bitch to everyone you knew. / Including your own kids. / You wore Opium Yves Saint Laurent / to clean Mr. Schwartz’s house
Ode to Ilford by Karishma Sangtani
In breathless evening traffic, / I press my forehead against the window, while / Durga Sweets and Ambala / tease my tongue through the glass.
Evening Shrouds by Syed Shehzar M. Doja
The evening — the cold resilient / sweet evening is adrift / Listen! The muezzin / screams into corners / of himself.
Knife by Claire Askew
You’re a half-shut knife, the woman / in the neat scarf says. I’m looking / at the miniature bolts that hold / her natty glasses in the shape / of her face.
Pingo by Tricia Elliott
Look with me / across this ice patterned ground / past the frost boils, the polygons, and scoured shield rock.