Poetry

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Associate Editor Kate Jayroe: Grauke’s quick, clever miCRo captures the lightning-in-a-bottle inspiration that can (sometimes) strike while inebriated as well as the oft-cloudy, mysterious aftermath. What did it mean last night? And what does it mean this morning? We’re left in a dark dazzlement as we pick up the puzzle pieces, thinking of the loggerhead …

Associate Editor Kate Jayroe: Choi’s reverberating verse memorializes the lost mail of the Titanic. While we’ve no doubt encountered haunting images, recollections, and creative interpretations of the doomed ocean liner’s maiden-and-final voyage, Choi’s heedful details and sparkling images offer a movingly unique distillation of what was written, lost. Listen to Stephanie Choi read the poem: …

Associate Editor Andy Sia: In Stella Wong’s compact poem, an array of transformations is possible. The bird of paradise seems to lift off into the blank space of the enjambment, but in fact exists in proximity to bamboo: “bamboo chairs.” Read as a verb, “chair” offers multiple, even countervailing registers: to preside over, or to …

Associate Editor Kate Jayroe: There’s a wondrous mix of magic, mystery, menace, and play swirling through Bargamian’s poem. As each line culminates toward its final vanishing act one cannot help but fall deeply enchanted by their incantatory, riddle-like charms. Escapology I am a mutant who inherited a predisposition for casual lying.  My father was an …

A poem about a honeymoon and a stranded giant Pacific chiton

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