Two Books : Longer Looks
Mixed media artist Ellen Wiener on the featured art for issue 16.
One Square Inch of Silence
I said goodbye to my father for the first and last time, after his death, in the quietest place in the United States.
Inventory • Please Give Your Fundraiser a Title—
He owns seven New Balance shoes, all rights / that have lost in this house their one-time partners.
Polaroid: Prison Visit poems
Here, lens flare recalls the burn holes in her nightgown.
The Ad Hoc Cartography of Nightmares
The problem with draining the world from your head / is what rushes in to take its place.
“Self-portrait skinning twenty-three auks” and other poems
A little rasp in its throat whittled the exhaling air. The auk laid down at last / and stayed there, its breath / so quiet I didn’t know when / it gave way to a greater quiet.
The First Otter and the Moon
I would like to tell you about my mother’s erratic heart, or share what I know of Las Patronas
in this poem my sister doesn’t die
so i keep renewing her favorite book / on our shared library card.
On Holding Space
In my mother tongue, you can hold a baby. You can hold a dog. You can hold on to something. But you can't hold space.
10 books by TSW writers for #TheSealeyChallenge
If you’re doing the sealey challenge this year — reading one book of poetry per day in the month of August — and looking for a few more books to explore this month, we have 10 poetry books by TSW authors that you could consider reading this month and beyond. Sanna Wani’s debut collection, My Grief, the Sun (House of Anansi Press, 2022): “Sanna Wani’s My Grief, the Sun makes such a convincing case for astonishment as a way of life. Each poem enveloped me with so much tenderness it was as if I were the sun! The theological music that courses throughout the book was not a narrowing toward…
Art in the space of social issues
