EVERY LONG POEM FEELS LIKE A GOODBYE / THIS IS NOT A LONG POEM
"we are still / waiting for a rebirth / of wonder by the waves" ~ A new poem by Camila Valle.
"we are still / waiting for a rebirth / of wonder by the waves" ~ A new poem by Camila Valle.
"a future is coming, / a wonderful, dazzling future of loss, / like we've never felt it before, so keen and yawning, / loss that means something, because we make it do so, / because we have time to..." Two poems by Kit Eginton.
"And I know that my ashes / Will scatter / The world." Two poems by Maysam Ghani.
"A festival underway; cherry-blossoms in bloom / I was carrying hundreds of leaflets / to distribute / to all of my comrades..." Two poems by farmers' rights activist Shibuya Teisuke, translated from the Japanese by Adam Kuplowsky.
"When do I rest into the we?" Two poems and a collage by Steffi Tad-y.
"I paid the tax for living. I kept / my head down & kept keeping / it down & pushing upwards." A new poem by Yaz Lancaster.
Sam Weselowski on "the red cedar / shade, backdrop / for the pickup truck flying / a Confederate flag / around the cul-de-sac..." A new poem.
"There are spaces to lie down / on scavenged mattresses, / under woolly capes. / Or on newly sewn duvets / stuffed with milkweed down. / Places to kiss and warm and hold." A visionary new poem by Mahaila Smith.