Sloan Asakura — Our Poet of the Year 💙 In “Saturn Makes Noise,” you refuse to flatten Saturn into a monster...dust, longing, “Saturn began to dream of wedding rings.” The terror & the tenderness share the same sequence w/o really fighting with each other. How do you begin, write, & finish a poem?

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“A blot / Of blood, about the size of the sun / Or my thumb. It was ages ago. / I can still hear it.” — Omar Sakr (@omarsakr.bsky.social) . . . This poem appeared in Cordite Poetry Review, 2024. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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More than 3,300 years ago, an unknown Egyptian wrote a love poem: clear, pure, mysterious. This translation by Egyptologist John Foster brings it to life in a way that leaves me breathless.

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“Like everyone else, I want a storm I can dance in.” — Franny Choi . . . This poem appeared in The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On by Franny Choi, published by Ecco, 2023. Shared here with deep gratitude.

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What a build. What a final line. From @victoriachang.bsky.social's book, The Trees Witness Everything: bookshop.org/a/862/9781556596322 #poem #books #writing

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