A portrait of the speaker centered around the image of a flower, Sara Hovda’s “White Peony” does the seamless work of communicating an entire story through meditation on an object. The reader is brought into the tensions that keep the…
Riddled with distances reflected in the poem’s form, both as three parts that span multiple countries, and in the slashes that lineate within its columns, Sabyah Seyam’s “Diaspora Triptych” is the kind of poem that we will continue to turn…
With precise control of image, Kaylee Young-Eun Jeong’s poem is an unfolding, one that builds toward its brutal, blunt turns. This is a kind of elegy for the violence that reveals more than what the speaker should have to know:…
Today we’re publishing this gorgeous piece by 2022 Nature & Place Prize third place winner, Noel Quiñones! How to Color Mami Notes: “How to Color Mami” is written in a poetic form I created called…
It’s such an honor to share this poem by Dan Barton, second place winner of our 2022 Nature & Place Prize, with you today! River Eclogue: Narcissus & Echo at the Bridge after Ed Roberson looking out on cement-framed…
We’re so excited to share this poem by 2022 Nature & Place Prize winner, Anna Newman! About Anna’s poem, the judge Amaud Johnson writes, “I know what the meek shall inherit, but maybe our lives are lesser when we hesitate…
A poem as incisive as the blade it mentions, Varun U. Shetty’s “Ars Poetica” moves from a singular first person speaker to a plural we. With that sudden inclusion, this poem requests we examine who and what is dissected in…
Strung through with the tension invoked by its title, Karan Kapoor’s poem invites us into the complexities of a relationship ridden with bitterness and the wear and tear of years. Through a form which winds unpunctuated like a long road,…
Alyson Kissner’s “Night Psalms” speaks with piercing, prophetic brevity. “Ask me,” the speaker begs, and invites us into a question that the poem allows to expand like darkness within its numbered framework. Night Psalms 1 Let there be light, He…
Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural Nature & Place Prize, and thank you to everyone who submitted! We’re delighted to announce that Anna Newman has been selected for the $3000 prize by our amazing judge, Amaud Johnson. Dan Barton…
