There are no ghosts here. They drained away
with the ebbing waters.
Kwame Dawes
from the book
Sturge Town /
Peepal Tree Press
“Chang leaves the restless arrangements and rearrangements of each obituary to its close cousin, its almost-anagram: oblivion.”
Electric Literature
“Hemphill’s voice on the page bravely speaks truth to the Black, queer, and male intersectional identity, in many ways defining what it means for poetry to be both lyrical and social critique.”
The Rumpus
“I wanted poetry to do the impossible, to bridge the gap that death creates.”
The Rumpus
“Acclaimed poet Alice Oswald speaks on why she faced arrest for Palestine solidarity, teaching children in wartime, and how Homer’s ancient spirits of forgiveness hold a key to our fractured present.”
The Indian Express
“You cannot pass through these kinds of personal life events and ask your brain and your being to go back to who you were because you’re not the same.”
The Associated News Press
“Heaney’s poetry testifies to the human desire to bind language to the material world.”
Poetry Foundation
“Vallejo is one of the great poets of suffering, if not the greatest. I know of no other poet who descends to such depths of human anguish.”
Los Angeles Review of Books
“The NBCC is delighted to announce our 2025 shortlists. Out of the many hundreds of titles that our organization carefully considered this year, these singular and striking finalists rose to the top.”
Literary Hub
“The Canadian poet Karen Solie has won the 2025 TS Eliot poetry prize for a collection of work, Wellwater, which explores the destruction of the natural world.”
The Guardian
“When the poem, which is life, carries so much violence, how do you not reenact that violence—or try not to?”
The Creative Independent
“In this episode of Tricycle Talks, Tricycle’s editor-in-chief, James Shaheen, sits down with Shimoda to talk about how he learned about his own family history of wartime incarceration.”
Tricycle
“The role of us poets is to witness the world, to see with our eyes and souls the delicate threads of truth, past, and possibility around us.”
Harpers Bazaar
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- March 21, 2026
Lucille Clifton
marching up out of the drains
not like soldiers like priests
- March 20, 2026
Anna Gual (translated from the Catalan by 1)
I didn't want a map
I wanted a machete to clear a path
- March 19, 2026
Richard Hamilton
War pigs hackney a response.
In other words, the stanza stultifies
- March 18, 2026
Rebecca Lehmann
Peel back my eyelids and kiss kiss. Leave a coin
on each plump cheek.
- March 17, 2026
Sara Mae
I steal furniture from / rooms rumored to have asbestos: cherry desks, leather chairs.
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