Cecily Parks’s The Seeds Wins the 2026 UNT Rilke Prize
Cecily Parks’s The Seeds, published by Alice James Books, has won the 2026 UNT Rilke Prize, a $10,000 award recognising a book by a mid-career poet. The collection moves through ...
Every House Learnt How to Burn
A poem/dialogue on possibility and impossibility.
The Crab’s Back
In “The Crab’s Back,” Natalia Toledo moves through Zapotec memory, childhood, pain, tradition and exile in a poem of startling bodily force. Translated by Diego Gómez Pickering, the poem asks ...
Lament of Black Children
A communal voice of resistance and remembrance. Black childhood under threat yet radiant in survival. Each stanza builds from mourning toward hope, blending lyric economy with social weight.
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BREAKING BORDERS | POEMS
Experience the evocative poetry of Natalia Toledo, presented in Zapotec, Spanish, and English. These poems explore themes of boundaries, migration, and sacred places. Translated by Diego Gómez Pickering, they offer ...
Olympiad
A sound like the blowing of a violent wind. The LORD is his name.
Praxis Axis (Walking the Beam)
Walking the beam, balances her shine, World’s highest esteem.
TEXTING
“I know how men are afraid of women who OBSESS.” Ann Pedone’s poems tackle men, sex, longing, love, and everything in between.
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THREE POEMS FROM ONLY YESTERDAY
Three poems from Mutsuo Takahaski
Poetry, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Issue
TWO POEMS
Two poems from Japanese poet Akehiro Shirai
Poetry, Print Issues, Spring 2021: Japan Issue
SIX POEMS
Six poems by poet Tian Yuan.
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The Street Seller’s Song
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Crab
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I Was There
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Bonfire Night Beneath the Stars
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Poetry Collection
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Fragments of Bone
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Keith
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Autumnal Absences by Fan Zhongyan (989-1052)
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