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

Don’t let the tiny man fool you. Godless, he was godless in rehearsals. One time he locked all […]

a grammar like sand:particulates erodinglike skin from a hand. See how the hills keepgetting looser, lower. The language […]

The hour that all the other hourshave waited, in a hurry, for. It’s toolate to call them back […]

“California” is a force—its minimalism enthralls in a time when clean lines everywhere are marred by grief and, […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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