Benoit Jutras

Emily Critchley

‘The piano eyes me / from its corner – / colluding with the past’

Anthony (Vahni) Capildeo

‘my every day is a being in of being / a mixity of worlds’

Anne Michaels

‘I told you how the bison woke / the earth / I knew you were listening’

Dara Wier

‘here we come / with our living // fruit baskets and / soon to wilt white flowers’

Jillian Weise

‘You want to get married? / We could die here // for lack of light’

Liz Berry

‘a cardigan / soft as a creature, smelling of birth and milk’ – New poetry from Liz Berry.

Danez Smith

‘the boy claps me between / his hands & i break apart like glitter’

Ocean Vuong

‘I’m too tired she said / to be this happy / & we laughed without / moving our hands’

Issue 140

Dara Wier

‘a style says conviction in indifference / conviction in style’

Kazim Ali

‘I haven’t learned very much in my life, I’ve just become a more / Choreographed disaster’

Karen McCarthy Woolf

‘May it not be / that they owe their fleshiness / to the cumulative effect?’

Andrea Brady

‘When we’re close to weaning / ourselves history gives us its reasons / to return’

Kim Kyung Ju

‘Underneath the leaves that stack my upper lip / the reindeer do not share their love.’ Translated from the Korean by Jake Levine.