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Ruth Awad Poetry Picks

Ruth Awad Poetry Picks

It is not my aim to name the spark that makes a poem a poem, but I can show you what is wild and wandering and wondering. I hope when you read these poems, your curiosity ignites. I hope they make you look up at the world around you and seek out its tenderness. I hope they fill you with a righteous rage or become the salve you needed on a hard day. I chose these poems for their breadth and spellwork. Let them transform you, even briefly.

鈥�An Ode to the Demise of the Wake鈥� by A.H. Jerriod Avant

鈥�The Lonely Poems鈥� by

&苍产蝉辫;鈥�Mary Sonnets鈥� by

听鈥�Self-Portrait While Meditating on the Nature of Existence鈥� by

鈥�Reasons Not to Go鈥� by

鈥�It鈥檚 a Question of Taste鈥� by

鈥�The Desertion Bureau / White Noise鈥� by

鈥�White Bath鈥� by

鈥�God of Decay鈥� by

鈥�The Link鈥� by

鈥�Dream VII鈥� by

鈥�Like a Handful of Pebbles鈥� by

鈥�in my head this afternoon it rained鈥� by

鈥�why write a love poem鈥� by Nate Marshall

鈥�Reading Frederick Douglass鈥� by

鈥�Personal Weather鈥� by

鈥�From The Homan Square Project鈥� by

鈥�New Baroque Derangement鈥� by

鈥�To wring out a trill鈥攍ike the robed girls鈥� by Tommye Blount

鈥�Verge鈥� by

鈥�A Photograph of a Grain of Salt鈥� by

鈥�Bakandamiya XVI鈥� by Saddiq Dzukogi

鈥�Land of the Morning Calm鈥� by Diana Keren Lee

鈥�Needle鈥� by Sappho Stanley

鈥�Styx鈥� by Randall James Tyrone听

鈥�Visitation鈥� by

鈥�Obituary鈥� by

鈥�January鈥� by Andy Eaton

鈥�I wasn鈥檛 trying to steal her boyfriend,鈥� by

鈥�Sundown鈥� by Maja Lukic 

鈥�The Whenwolf鈥� by

鈥�The Visitors鈥� by D.A. Powell

鈥�Cima di Cocuzzo鈥� by

鈥�The New Father鈥� by

鈥�Recipe鈥� by听

鈥�On Domesticity鈥� by

鈥�Late Gothic鈥� by Esther Lin听

鈥�World of Each Other鈥檚 World鈥� by

鈥�Here, in a devastated land,鈥� by Anzhelina Polonskaya

鈥�A Stroke / Of Dirt鈥� by

鈥�Quick Thinking鈥� by

鈥�Offering鈥� by Chee Brossy

鈥�On the Soul鈥� by Jennifer Chang

鈥�The Secret鈥� by

鈥�But, Please, Not Too Soon...鈥� by

鈥�September鈥� by

鈥�Erase Genesis鈥� by

鈥�The Federal Bureau of Missed Connections鈥� by Lucas Jorgensen

鈥�Apology for the Time between Letters鈥� by

鈥�The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire鈥� by Matthew Tuckner

鈥�It鈥檚 Important I Remember That the Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself鈥�鈥� by
鈥�Reading Zadie Smith at Twenty-Four鈥� by Dante Di Stefano
鈥�What Will You Miss about These Hard Years?鈥� by
鈥�Olly Olly Oxen Free鈥� by
鈥�How My Grandmother Exited the Last Harbor鈥� by
鈥�O: An Elegy鈥� by
鈥�I Live in the Future, My Body Lives in the Past鈥� by
鈥�To an Old Lover鈥澨齜y
鈥�Mollusk鈥澨齜y Toma啪 艩alamun (translated from Slovenian by Brian Henry)
鈥�Diagnosis鈥澨齜y
鈥�My Father鈥檚 Comb鈥� by

鈥�[And, having been considered only locally a sinner]鈥� by

鈥�Root Canal鈥� by

鈥�Dear O鈥�鈥� by

鈥�The Cat's Odyssey鈥� and 鈥�Editorial Efforts鈥� by

鈥�Last Night I Had Such Good Dreams鈥� by

鈥�All Day We鈥檝e Been Speaking in the Dark鈥� by

鈥�Something about the name鈥� by

鈥�Honeymooning鈥� by

鈥�The Angel of Farewell鈥� by

鈥�Starlite Motel鈥� by

鈥�El Chacal鈥� by听Jose Hernandez Diaz
鈥�Ode to Damage鈥� by听
鈥�A Ghazal for Black Boys鈥� by听Rosalind Guy
鈥�Reading 'What a Waste' to College Boys鈥� by听
鈥�Touch Cave鈥� by听
鈥�Family with Dreams Cut Out鈥� by听
鈥�Everything Is on Fire鈥� by听
鈥�The Groomsman鈥� by听Alexa Patrick
鈥�Portrait of My Sister 缅北强奸 to Shoplift鈥� by听Chelsea Wagenaar

鈥�Night thinks it鈥檚 crying again鈥� & 鈥�When Everything Is Too Much, I Praise What Didn鈥檛 Break鈥澨齜y听
鈥�How to Conquer鈥� by听
鈥�Autobiography via Screaming鈥� by听
鈥�Light Home鈥� by听
鈥�Next to the Gas Station That Sells Chicken Wings鈥� by听听&听
鈥�Mercury in Cancer鈥� by听
鈥�How to Let Go, or, I Smudged Lost Loves Away into the Ocean鈥� by听
鈥�Wife for Scale鈥� by听
鈥�Final Poem for the Bullet鈥� by听Phillip B. Williams

鈥�Book of Mild Regrets鈥� by听
鈥�& the white girl tells me i need to marry a Latino man so that my kids can be the world鈥� by听Em Dial
鈥淚mmigrant Elegy for 脕vila鈥� by听
鈥�all the girls standing in the line for the bathroom鈥� by听
鈥�Masculine Sonnet鈥� by听
鈥�salat during deportation proceedings鈥� by
鈥�hearsay鈥� by听

鈥淗oney鈥� by听Allison Adair
鈥淎n Accommodation鈥澨齜y听Sandra Beasley
鈥淕od Letter鈥澨齜y听CM Burroughs
鈥淢arigolds of Fire鈥澨齜y听Ama Codjoe
鈥淏uying Back-to-School Supplies鈥� by听Matthew Guenette
鈥淧rofessor Marva Stewart鈥檚 Funeral Service at Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel, Paine College鈥� by听Kamilah Aisha Moon
鈥淕ather鈥� by听Jess Smith
鈥淭he Most Important Word in This Language鈥� by听Analicia Sotelo

鈥�Upon Meeting My Father for the First Time, My Mother Thinks鈥�鈥� by听Bailey Cohen
鈥�Motel, Oregon鈥� by听
鈥�Something Quiet鈥� by听
鈥�Casida of the Branches鈥� by听C. C. Reid
鈥�For the Doctor's Records鈥澨齜y听Clint Smith

鈥�Aubade in the Old Apartment鈥� by听
鈥�Get Out of the Goddamn Car,鈥� by听Benjam铆n Naka-Hasebe Kingsley
鈥�On the Haunted Hayride with Audrey鈥� by听
鈥�white girl interrogates her recurring dreams鈥� by听
鈥�The Earth Is Rude, Silent, Incomprehensible鈥� by听
鈥�December at Faribault Prison鈥� by听

鈥�Crack鈥澨齜y听
鈥�Sunken Place Sestina鈥澨齜y听
鈥�White Earth鈥� by听
鈥�Fawn鈥澨齜y听
鈥�In Praise of the Names of Things鈥澨齜y听Chelsea Wagenaar

is a Lebanese-American poet, a 2021 NEA Poetry fellow, and the author of Outside the Joy (Third Man Books, 2024) and Set to Music a Wildfire, winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry. She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and she won the 2013 and 2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and the 2011 Copper Nickel Poetry Contest. Her work appears in The Atlantic, AGNI, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Believer, The New Republic, Pleiades, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and she lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio.

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