All articles filed in Poetry

In “OF,” Palestinian poet and performance artist Fargo Tbakhi seethes against the violence of Israeli occupation and honors the vitality of Palestinian culture and resistance.

Mikhayla Robinson’s poem “Nina Simone Sings at My Funeral” celebrates the bonds forged by shared song, even in grief.

Today’s poem, “abhaya mudra” by Zoey Greenwald, explores how faith and ancestral memory endure through the language of the body.

Poet Steven Lazarov’s “ACAB” is a provocation hurled at the cops: “melt your badge & gun, burn your uniform.”

“Philadelphia,” by Ryan Boyd, is a brief lyric montage of urban solitude.

Poet Jonce Palmer’s “My climate / Mi ambiente” is a bilingual meditation on how the surveillance state warps our senses, eroding the rhythm of our lives.

Today’s poem, an excerpt from R.M. Haines’s forthcoming Person of Interest, uses the figure of Taxi Driver’s Travis Bickle to interrogate the violent landscape of U.S. society.

In “Midnight in California,” Deven Philbrick drafts “a blueprint for fissure,” a California dislocated from history.

Poet Ethan Milner’s “Sh’ma” is a gorgeous, devastating reflection on the 2018 Tree of Life synagogue massacre, the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history.

Pakistani poet Neha Maqsood’s “Every man must overcome a whiteness within himself” extols the guiding force of faith in the struggle against alienation, patriarchy, and racism.