TQ24 Poetry Prize

Any person who is diseased, maimed, mutilated, or in any way deformed, so as to be an unsightly […]

American Ugly by heidi andrea restrepo rhodes

(after Tarfia Faizullah; for the Disappeared) Rice? That is what we are expected to sing about, and […]

heidi andrea restrepo rhodes is a queer, disabled, brown/Colombian poet, scholar, and cultural worker. Her collection The Inheritance […]

Tawanda Mulalu was born in Gaborone, Botswana. He is the author of the chapbook Nearness, forthcoming from The […]

After Jericho Brown In the dream, I buried my fatherThen ran toward the mountain set on fire. Running […]

after Jostein Gaarder This morning the kitchen is problematic. Every burner on the stove is a capitalist.I […]

For a long time it was cold. a perfect environmentfor polar bears. the polar bears thrived. ate the […]

Begin as always with a voice. How long can a frog in a well last? The well is […]

ten sun bears sit around a large circle tableall holding copies of the same textbookthe lead sun bear […]

Van Gogh’s ear is lying now without Zyrtec in a field abstracted here into this concerto for a […]

the roses are red it is night the street lights are reliable your phone declares there is a […]

I don’t watch myself, others watch then draw. You drawme with your lens— it asks where my skin […]