Poem
By heidi andrea restrepo rhodes
I: My beloved is called an inconceivable beast, a spectacle diagnosed with teratoid genitalia, a chaos…
Theme
Lineages & Legacies
Poems, essays, and events that engage with works or people in conversation with the poet. This includes poems about family, poems “after” other poets, works that pull lines from other sources, and land acknowledgments.
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- PoemBy Elise PaschenLily Gladstone confides she wore my great
grandmother Eliza’s blankets in three scenes.
I don’t remember… - PoemBy Elise PaschenDuring the Grayhorse
Dances in June,
my mother side-stepped
around the circle,
echoing moves
her grandmother… - PoemBy Carmen Calatayudmy body at the water’s edge of opioid comfort
under the brain’s night sky
rounding the blue curve … - Events-VirtualA generative poetry workshop, “Walking backwards into the future: crafting the historical poem” created and led by Casey Larkin Mazer Carsel
- ArticleBy Sapphire
For Cortez, poetry was not about mastery of form. Poetry in the mouth of the Firespitter was the creation of form.
- PoemBy Jayne CortezFrom white lightnin to
bowed heads in red
rooms of pregnancy
under blackness
spread out closed in
how do … 
- Events-VirtualA generative poetry workshop, “One Hundred Faces of the Beloved: The Ghazal,” created and led by Samyak Shertok
- ArticleBy Ocean Vuong
Honoring one of the most influential lyric practitioners of our time.
- ArticleBy Li-Young Lee
Something I never read in any book keeps me awake tonight, something my father said.
- ArticleBy Yasmine Ameli
Navigating Audience, Orientalism, and Family Mythology Beyond the Binary.
- PoemBy Kao Nhia KueI come from
Muas Nkauj Liag, northern lands unknown
From refugees with blistered feet
From sun-dried… - PoemBy C. Dale YoungNot, as some believe, from the word genesis,
the word gene came from the Greek genos
meaning origin… - Events-VirtualA discussion and creative workshop on the inspirations and subjects of poems
- Events-VirtualA generative poetry workshop, “The Poet’s Version: Translation as Creative Practice,” created and led by Danielle Pieratti.