White cloud letters P O E T R Y on a blue background. Birds and people wearing yellow fly through them

January 2022

Cover artist: Haein Kim/Canvas

have I mentioned I’ve forgotten
            words and places one by one

 Daniel Moysaenko
  • Marissa Davis
  • Kay Ulanday Barrett
  • Michael Dowdy
  • Christine Imperial
  • David A. Reyes
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Poem
By C. E. Janecek
I vowed to give a rabbit religion, a weight to match
her bulk in my prepubescent arms. Sunlight illuminating
her ears like church windows: pink pulse, spider veins,
the altar’s velvet. When you hold a rabbit like a child,
her toes stretch to reveal...
Poem
By Nathalie Koble & Cole Swensen
despite and still

Sur une terrasse de bord de mer, été
Lumière du matin. Vent insolite pour la saison
Une femme, âges multiples, assise
Quelqu’un surgit
Syncopé. Deux en un. Elle lit
Se lève. Fenêtre ouverte sur pin, sur palmier
Se rassoit. Un rail de lumière. Un...
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