Poetry
Explore Moment‘s collection of poems and exclusive poet interviews.
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How yellow the light is, coming out / Of the branches when the last owl / Climbs off like a wind that drops / Morning from the light. ...
August again, the apples now heavy enough to let go, jostled by gusts that herald a monsoon in this high desert. ...
As we head in, he squeezes my arm: You know, the Kaddish never mentions death…only God’s goodness. ...
Pig blood in the kosher cafeteria. / I scuffed it with my shoe. ...
“The world went into hiding and hid in plain sight.” ...
Cohen’s spare poem passes through the disorientation of loss from “the first autumn... without her” to the following summer, season of abundance and decay. ...
What poetry can offer—image by image—is different from, and more intimate than, knowledge. ...
ELLIPSIS, GENESIS We speak of beginnings as we trudge uphill to the observatory, sparks lifting in the sudden gloom— our
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In Sara Camhaji’s poems, the speaker’s worldview encompasses the plants’ power and authority over human ways. ...
“Prisoner Z” conjures a dystopian world that exists today in countries we can name. ...
This poem by Rachel Mennies looks to the leaves for signs of resilience and finds them “more alive” for having braved the dark. ...
David Israel Katz writes us into spaces that negate sense, and importantly, negate our impulse to try to locate sense. ...