Poem of the Day
Yellow Striped Pajamas
By Shamsher Bahadur Singh
walking silently on his paws, he emerges from the semidarkness and disappears into it.
Poetry: 2020s
Holding a Book I Haven’t Read for Many Years
By Malachi Black
I slept in the back seat like a bad thought.
from “36 Ways of Writing a Vietnamese Poem”
By Nam Le
And Cathay was not China.
And Vietnam was not China
Nor made in China—but close enough.
“I stole the yellow bird …”
By Joyce Mansour
He will teach me how to seduce
Men, stags, double-winged angels
A Green Dream
By Uche Nduka
between brownstones
where yearning
confesses its nature
Small Craft Talk
By Dobby Gibson
but no one is always on your side
not even a poet
Mistry: A Lyric
By D. S. Marriott
I am we: space the gift,
a white sprit of motion—
John Wick Is So Tired
By Kyra Wilder
and I would lean in close and tell you that John Wick kills women like
he’s read feminist theory
Autobiography of a Poet
By Michael Bazzett
Smoking a dart, I said.
I just met my first bird.
Birth
By Tracy Fuad
Born of a sharpness, and set to music.
Intimate Relationship
By Oksana Maksymchuk
In my hat I sit
in my cellar
waiting