Pledge of Allegiance by E.J. Koh
“When my mother tells me, under allegiance: // Be happy! When you smile happiness is chase you — / her language is a hand she lays on my head.” — E.J. Koh
ars poetica in which every pronoun is a Free Palestine by George Abraham
“FREE PALESTINE will name the violence // & never the resurrection, like FREE PALESTINE hasn’t survived impossible / histories to get here.” — George Abraham
Tender by Sophie Klahr
“I'll say a sonnet is a little song / to hold a thing that otherwise cannot / be held: a lonely thing; a death; a bear.” — Sophie Klahr