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Sacred Mire and the Cutting Edge of Anti-: Tawahum Bige’s Cut to Fortress

  • Robert Manaster
  • May 7, 2025
Bige as an in-your-face activist-poet resists the colonizer through a poetry they themselves appropriate and transform mainly via language play and voice into an indigenous poetry of personal redemption.
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National Poetry Month: Hala Alyan

  • Hala Alyan
  • April 30, 2025
Patron saint of lost things: / napkin poem and thirty bucks and / I think her name started with M.
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National Poetry Month: Ansel Elkins

  • Ansel Elkins
  • April 29, 2025
we wanted the dreams / but didn’t want the dandelions / growing wild with delighted bees,
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National Poetry Month: Julian Talamantez Brolaski

  • Julian Talamantez Brolaski
  • April 28, 2025
you just gotta know / when to toss them the meat / ‘try’ implies there is some latitude / in the outcome
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National Poetry Month: Bernardo Wade

  • Bernardo Wade
  • April 25, 2025
& Delirium shows me our kids / & the house we would raise them in / & my perfect job / & I think, damn, that was easy
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“A Here that is Not This”: An Undocupoets Roundtable Conversation

  • Yes(sí)
  • April 25, 2025
Writing is not a luxury. It’s the documentation of our decolonial imaginary.
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National Poetry Month: 黄梵 Huang Fan

  • 黄梵 Huang Fan
  • April 24, 2025
My zodiac sign really is the rabbit / As a child, I ground my teeth in my sleep / According to the rabbit dictionary / That’s how you say pain 
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National Poetry Month: Mark Leidner

  • Mark Leinder
  • April 23, 2025
I found a chest / that contained an important upgrade // that let me absorb more damage / going forward,
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National Poetry Month: Soleil Davíd

  • Soleil Davíd
  • April 22, 2025
I learn to fear / what might have happened if they had meant // to maul me, which is to say I don’t think enough / about death,
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National Poetry Month: Rob Arnold

  • Rob Arnold
  • April 21, 2025
Beauty in, beauty out. What you consume becomes you.
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National Poetry Month: Harmony Holiday

  • Harmony Holiday
  • April 18, 2025
She threatens to love them like this forever    in pieces  flabby patchwork of his  lost sheet music
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National Poetry Month: Mathias Svalina

  • Mathias Svalina
  • April 17, 2025
So let’s collect our birthed things, no matter / how small or useless, & store them on museum / shelves.
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