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abyss - Chloe Moriondo - oyster - 2025 (bandcamp)

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Oliver Baez Bendorf, “Everything All at Once”

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Civil Servant by Essex Hemphill published in Ceremonies: Prose and Poetry - 1992

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Song for a Netflix Account - Pat The Bunny - The Volatile Utopian Real Estate Market - 2014 (bandcamp)

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Two Questions by silas denver melvin (@sweatermuppet) for Bleating Thing Magazine issue 1, May 2024 - read online or order in print here

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silas denver melvin / june gehringer / phoebe bridgers

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Mini poetry dump. Hope u guys like these

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poem for haruko (i never thought i’d keep a record of my pain) by June Jordan

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snowdrops by Louise Glück

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UNWELL.

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SONNET FOR CAIN / 9.26.19

Nathaniel Orion G. K.

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In the club reading poetryfoundation.com

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pornography by richard siken, in the diagram

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Pepsi Cola - Hubert Matiúwàa - Mexico

Translator: Juana Adcock (Mè’phàà)

One Sunday a man arrived to sell black water that glistened like a riverstone. A lady bought some and said: ‘It’s as sweet as heaven’s water must be.’ They called it iya maskoria – water of mercy. To consecrate their tongues, some asked for a barter. It wasn’t possible. They asked why, ‘It’s called Pepsi Cola,’ said the man. We started to drink from that death, which shrivels up our skin and makes our blood toothsome. Now not even doctors’ water can heal us

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Today’s Paris Review daily poem 🕯🕯🕯

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WELCOME TO ROUND 2 OF THE POETRY SMACKDOWN

Hello again. First I just wanna say how excited I am at the response to this bracket. I was going to consider it a smashing success if like forty people voted, so needless to say it has outperformed my expectations, and I’ve really really enjoyed talking with folks and seeing everyone's responses to these poems! That said, 14/16 of my votes were in the minority, so actually fuck you guys. 🩷

Anyways Round 2! Transcriptions are included this time in alt text—sincere apologies to everyone for whom Round 1 was inaccessible, and many thanks to @army-of-bee-assassins and @accessibleaesthetics for being so generous with their helpful advice and feedback. I'm still going back and forth about whether to include just alt text or to include the image descriptions in the body of the post as well, but I've reformatted it in my drafts like twice already so at this point I'm just hitting publish and opening it up for feedback.

I've also included links to readings by the author for all the poems where one was available, for anyone interested in getting a fresh perspective.

enjoy! -amelia @poetriarchy

ROUND 2: ENDS JULY 26th at 6pm EDT

“The Two-Headed Calf” by Laura Gilpin vs. “Poem” by Langston Hughes

"Miss you. Would like to grab that chilled tofu we love." by Gabrielle Calvocoressi vs. “Hammond B3 Organ Cistern” by Gabrielle Calvocoressi

“someone will remember us” (Fragment 147 from Sappho trans. Anne Carson) vs. “The Quiet World” by Jeffrey McDaniel

“Come. And Be My Baby” by Maya Angelou vs. “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver

“The Orange” by Wendy Cope vs. “Instructions on Not Giving Up” by Ada Limón

“To The Young Who Want to Die” by Gwendolyn Brooks vs. “Meditations in an Emergency” by Cameron Awkward-Rich

“I’m not a religious person but” by Chen Chen vs. “How to Be a Dog” by Andrew Kane

“I’m Going Back to Minnesota Where Sadness Makes Sense” by Danez Smith vs. “Having ‘Having a Coke With You’ With You” by Mark Leidner