I’ve Gone to Look for America, Term Two
September 15, 2026
In the beginning, the peony was the bullet
Poetry
Poetry
Poetry
I’ve Gone to Look for America, Term One
September 15, 2026
I was a child of rust, browning at the interior
Poetry
there’s this blurry photo of me & my sister with our eyes closed
September 15, 2026
colors spread across our skin like nothing could hurt us
Poetry
Old Darkness / Under a New Moon
June 15, 2026
flame, making him, for that moment, the brightest star
Poetry
Origin Story for War
June 15, 2026
We tell ourselves / they are all like this: enemy is not a word / with a name or a family.
Poetry
I am unsure if this poem has been properly executed) / I’m Karelian
May 15, 2026
hard to picture: nothingness
Poetry
Crow Language / Crow Testament / Crow Gospel
May 15, 2026
Black as what? Coal before fire, ink before alphabet, secrets hoarded in a madman's coat.
Poetry
Chronicle of My Thirty-Eighth Year
April 14, 2026
I want to learn about the world by looking at birds
Poetry
At Stefan Stambolov Square, Plovdiv
April 14, 2026
the first date of a couple who later broke up
Poetry
The Emperor Jones
March 15, 2026
Last time I saw him he was wearing a baseball cap, now feathers ricochet on his head.
Poetry
(LATE-ORPHIC)—THE LONG NOW, PART XIII—
February 12, 2026
To study time is to apprehend the body
Poetry
Yosemite Bound or how a river remembers
December 4, 2025
society's last gasp / before the mountains
Poetry
Gordon Grant
October 22, 2025
disease, too deep to retrieve / with simple stick or hands that also reach / for my daughter
Poetry
An Emptiness Yet to Come
September 17, 2025
The omen of your absence remains in the halls / an emptiness yet to come, a muteness marking the end of your words
Poetry
The Sad Ballad of Wyckoff
September 17, 2025
Like the sea, tragedy / knows no fatigue, there is no rest in its mysteries.
Poetry
Visitation
September 17, 2025
her face / to the cutting edge of the blade / The scar I tell you
Poetry
Waltz of Stone
September 17, 2025
Pause between two claps of thunder The artist makes the most of it to belt out his song
Poetry
Through the opening on the deck
August 15, 2025
One part of the machinery grabs the other lulling it / They communicate like pictures for the blind.
Poetry
Spider Flags
August 15, 2025
In parades of work, and parades of hope / dislocated from their own beings / the actors played their roles in the streets
Poetry
On the Train to Cascais
August 15, 2025
an Atlantean as beautiful / as the body of her slippery language,
Poetry
There are nights that escape
June 17, 2025
There are nights so long / so very long / they could form rivers of tears
Poetry
Death’s night won’t come gently
June 17, 2025
you will hear my ancestors’ voices / piercing your peace
Poetry
to write by chance the whiteness
May 19, 2025
From When I’m Not Around (Quando não estou por perto).
Poetry
I don’t want to come back here
May 19, 2025
From When I’m Not Around (Quando não estou por perto).
Poetry
I fall in love only with the furthest
May 19, 2025
From When I’m Not Around (Quando não estou por perto).
Poetry
Jongo & Adriano
May 19, 2025
In the entrails of Rio’s brush, a flight is in process: Jongo, African of Angola, and Adriano, a Brazilian Criollo, risk the dense forest seeking the freedom to be
Poetry
Midnight Service
April 15, 2025
Sixty voices seesawed in the song / of tongues. Sixty bodies gripped
Poetry
Black Girl in Wyoming-after Ross Gay
April 15, 2025
on her skin, tone, a mixture of sienna and copper / a bit shy of the rust in the dust of earth
Poetry
A Citadel in Queens
April 15, 2025
By air, earth, fire, and blood in my veins, I / know something of the devil
Poetry
In Costa Rica, My Father Speaks
March 17, 2025
Her voice / was jazz, like yours when you’re telling stories
Poetry
Snapshot in the Kitchen for Minerva Margarita
March 17, 2025
and boys / that barely cross the threshold / and become men
Poetry
Sleepwalker
February 19, 2025
What a strange land this is / I don't remember the names of the birds
Poetry
When He Said His Name
February 19, 2025
the white labyrinth of love moved my flesh / and grew the time of guilt
Poetry
Requiem for my ancestor’s fig tree
February 16, 2025
Which hand sowed the ashes / where the ancestor planted life
Poetry
From Snakewoman
January 15, 2025
Crazed, crazed for love, to love / thresholds oblivious and rabid for trade
Poetry
A Star from the Land of the Dead
January 15, 2025
Your departure’s no departure, / your return is no return
Poetry
From III – Rome
January 15, 2025
Perhaps tomorrow I’ll come to a green / field,—and I’ll no longer be alone.
Poetry
From Secret Death
January 15, 2025
We should all take note of this: / that we are flesh and we die.
Poetry
If I have grandchildren with this accent
March 4, 2024
I’ll tell them their grandfather / must have lived in a tall building
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Southern Sonnet
February 5, 2024
I’m trying to write you a love song but / the news overspills as I boil coffee.
Poetry
Final Reflection
February 5, 2024
It’s amazing what rain can do to a stained wall / Said an angel from the custodial team
Poetry
Once Upon a Time
January 16, 2024
Once upon a time, there was a lord who lit / Fire to his castle