how long is a minute: A Poem by Shlagha Borah
no clock or calendar counts nor contains / shame.
“If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it.”
—Anne Carson
no clock or calendar counts nor contains / shame.
Three poems by Katie Berta
Winners of our 22-word poetry contest include Diane Gottlieb, Angela Acosta, Fatima van Hattum, and Julia Watson.
Winner of our 2022-word poetry contest.
Common rez courtesy means the passenger opens the gate / while the driver passes through
It’s not the leather-smelling shelves at Hoglund’s / or the boots I haven’t learned to walk in.
'Outside Camilla' and 'Storm'
She asked when she could come to the hospital to see her new niece
I urge like a red lacquered / fingernail tapping a car / window, rat-tat-tat-ing, exclaiming / over there! faster than words
presume you bite a tomato the same way a man chomps an apple