- Ntozake Shange
- Zakaria Mohammed
- Brandon Shimoda
- Rachel Mennies
- Harryette Mullen
From this Issue
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poemBy Kara KrewerUnder which she prunedthe peach trees and a tiny gatewayopened in her spine. That paindistilled there like a dropof molten glass. And was the first of manychambers to form.There was her bedroom,where she bloomedin the white fog of sleepand so...
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poemBy Cathy Park Hongmak is the touchof the potter, the thumbprinton claythe unfinished warp of woodand brailleof grainand knobof rope that hangsthe squid that is driedfor daysthen eatenwith winefermented fromdredgesof rice—the Joseon potteradjoins two hemispheres to makea whitelopsided moonexalt in theseimperfectionsthe actof creation...
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poemBy Camille Rankine
a man I’ve never met tells me to open
like a flower but a flower cut
too soon won’t soften
into bloom it stays
like a fist so like a fist
I leave a mark
and all the heart I have
inside this tidy vessel I’m disruption
the...
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Table of Contents
Poems
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Charif Shanahan
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Kara Krewer
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Cathy Park Hong
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Camille Rankine
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Henri Cole
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Derrick Austin
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Wang Wei
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Susan Wan Dolling
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Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
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J. Estanislao Lopez
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Miron Białoszewski
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Clare Cavanagh
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Aaron Smith
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Keetje Kuipers
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Grady Chambers
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Martín Espada
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Rachel Mennies
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Mira Rosenthal
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Harryette Mullen
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Pablo Texón
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Will Howard
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Nirmal Verma
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Viplav Saini
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Angie Macri
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Richard Blanco
MY NAME BACK TO ME: NTOZAKE SHANGE
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Imani Perry
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Ntozake Shange