"We write to probe and traverse the unknown—the poem a soft, pliable device that Mónica de la Torre and Tonya M. Foster explore through swirling semantic permutations, linguistic turns and leaps positioning the apparatus in closer proximity to the heart. The Poetry Project is thrilled to celebrate the release of their new publications, Pause the […]
“Rats thrive in sewers” Samiya Bashir writes in I Hope This Helps, a new genre-bending book drawing on her 2024 exhibition of the same name at The Africa Center, “so maybe I’m thriving.” Across poetry, essays, music, printmaking, and photography, Bashir reflects on decades of artistic metamorphosis within and beyond the limits of reality, time, […]
When living under a state of permanent crisis, containment is shattered, the self is made brutally porous to air, ashes, and rents too high to afford. Yet our attachment to destruction runs unforgivingly deep. When Dawn Lundy Martin and Rosie Stockton speak of love, they speak of its blooming contradictions. Between sweet surrender and the […]
Join Laura Moriarty (Which Walks) and Eric Sneathen (Don't Leave Me This Way) at Tally Ho! Books in Oakland. Which Walks is a unique and exciting collection “documenting (and interrogating) the poet’s daily walks. investigates the twin practices of walking and art-making while aging. Intensely feminist, Moriarty’s book relates to the endlessly unfinished journeys of […]