"My son doesn’t believe in the multiverse. / When asked? Math." Poem in Which Touch is a Theory and After My Son and I Decide Which Selfie by Alexa Doran, who currently works as an Assistant Professor English at Tallahassee State College. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"Swallow, / will you sing me your song?" My Father’s God by Jon Provens, an Argentine-American writer and educator currently based in Southern California. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"Where’s he / from, what’s his mission, why’s he here on this floor / in this particular exhibition?" People by Todd Boss, who is working on three novels, a nonfiction project, a choral operetta, and a screenplay. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"centennial of daily specials..." it’s just a ride by Jonathan Focht, who lives in Northern Ontario, Canada. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"3:00 p.m." a quiet list of unsettled matters when i go to the grocery store by Sophia Pan, who is from Chicago, IL and loves reading and writing slightly disturbed poetry. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"How, if at all, does a feeling unwind?" Art & Objecthood & Still Life with Airstrike and Kant by Cindy King. Originally from Cleveland, Ohio, she currently lives in Utah, where she is a professor of creative writing at Utah Tech University. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"There are insects in the canopy." At the Heart of a Spiral & Under a Burnt Out Sun by Will Sheets, an undergrad student at the University of Richmond studying Creative Writing and English. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"You sit at your desk, starving, trying to transfer $400 from your savings to your checking account..." Direct Address by Robin Arble, who studied writing and literature at Hampshire College and lives in New York. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"Picture this: darkest draped cloth, magnesium powder flash / from a match..." Ripples by Stephen Mead, a retiree whom, throughout all his pretty non-glamorous jobs still found time for writing poetry/essays and creating art. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"Tell me, how do you become / less animal without becoming more ghost?" Unparented Rituals by Penny Wei, a poet from Shanghai and Massachusetts. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"Yes, / I’ll sweep up. A pile of ends / just beginning to bend." LENGTHS, THE LANDLORD, & SUPERSTITION by Miss Jackson Newbern (they/them), a poet from Georgia. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"In the neighborhood Rite Aid, museum / of my gay awakening, I was browsing / butterfly mascara as her voice spoke / through Bruno Mars." Self-Portrait as Lesbian Artifact by Arushee Bhoja, a queer Indian-American poet from California. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"What does the hand / of God feel like? I ask you." Hold On by Lisa Compo, a PhD student in SUNY Binghamton’s creative writing program who obtained her MFA from UNC – Greensboro. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"Listen, / it isn’t the drag queens stripping / my kids of Medicaid." Junk Hour by Josh Luckenbach, a Web Editor for the Coalition for Community Writing. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"Someone had left me a book with two definitions of a door: the first is simply an entrance." After the Metal Door Stopper by Connor Arakaki, a writer at Yale University, where they serve as the current Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Herald. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"The place you want kissed is temple, / [slepoočnica]—I remember." Temple by Mirthe van Popering, a writer and translator based in Berlin. Her work dismantles—moving through rupture, subversion, and the strange edges of desire. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"In a dream, grandmother commands me bol! / and I speak to the ancestor in my bone." Sestina In Which I Try to Escape My Inheritance by Hafsa Zulfiqar, a poet from Pakistan. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"calling his / brother ishmael to ask him for the netflix password." genesis 22:19 by Michel Krysiak, a philosophy research student, currently residing in Kyoto. They write in English and Polish. This is their first published poem. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"A season for looking at last leaves:" Reservoir Meditation by Joshua Gregory, the Spiritual Director and Bereavement Counselor of the Hospice of the Fisher Home in Amherst, MA. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"Not even they are forever. In this glorious re-greening / something comes next for us, too." Green Reigns by Emily Updegraff, an MFA student at Northwestern University. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"Sometimes they’d ask you / —are these all yours?" Stabat Mater by Benjamin Bellet, a clinical psychologist and military veteran. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"It was a story only I could / tell in order to become / my own person" Boots by Cole Barry, who you can find on Instagram @cole.barryy. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"How did you know. I was just thinking / of the irredeemable, pictured here..." Three poems from Bruce Bond, who teaches part-time as a Regents Emeritus Professor of English at the University of North Texas. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

come out to the New Orleans Healing Arts Center tomorrow for a collaborative poetry event with Tyger Quarterly at the NOPF! Featuring @browatch.bsky.social, kathy wu, Alyssa Moore, Emily Pittinos, Shira Dentz, and Emily Barton Altman

"Mostly, I know hunger and pain or no pain at all and that is all I write about." Reading Travels to Writing as Sound Travels to Light by Aimee Wai, a creative writer and engineer. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

Thanks to all who came to our reading! #awp #awp2025

tomorrow night! 8pm, 3/28 at Sibylline Records reading with Helene Achanzar, @tarikd.xyz, Amanda Gunn, Ricardo Frasso Jamarillo, Caroline Kanner, and Ethan Seeley! 15 S El Molino Ave, Pasadena

"Is that not poetic? Shall we try again?" What can you answer? & Fear is its own low country from Garnet Juniper Bennet, a writer & seeker of truth. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"What happened: the rabbit died / because I struck it." Two poems from Xiadi Zhai, a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop from Boston, Massachusetts. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"she... tearfully asks Is this the kind of breakup where I buy you flowers & win you back?" "After the Breakup," by Natalie Eleanor Patterson, a poet, editor, and instructor from Atlanta, Georgia, with an MFA in poetry from Oregon State University. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

DIALOGIST will be having an off-site reading at AWP, hosted by Sibylline Records. We'd love to see you there!

"E brings home a lesson from school: / a bullet must move at the velocity of a kingfisher / to break through skin" primary education by Starr Jiang, a filmmaker and production designer from the Bay Area. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"this is where we compose / the symphony of extra silence for the funerals / of the October deserters..." Sectarian bicycles by Bryan D. Price, who lives in San Diego, California. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

Roads are where dust goes to die. The women wake thirsty. On the Line & MENAGERIE by Marilyn McCabe. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"In the distance, / someone is singing. In the distance." Cover by Ricardo Frasso Jaramillo, a writer of poetry and nonfiction. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"We’re dancing all night under a canopy / of trees planted for this purpose." Toward Ritual & Assigning New Memories to Familiar Places by @jeffreyperkins44.bsky.social. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"every day i prove my humanity to robots" Refractory Period & the algorithm moves toward an average by Diana Cao. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"This is a terrible moment / and one I want to never end." The Dimming by Fay Dillof, a poet and therapist living in Northern California. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"The afternoon radio has some nonsense disintegrating in the air, / while I’m in the laundry room downstairs folding clothes / in front of a dirty window." Mortality: a meditation on Emily Dickinson’s envelope poems by Nick Hilbourn. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

"I want myself as regurgitate— / an intimacy fragmented and bare..." Selfie Sonnet [Woman in green lace dress takes a selfie in a coffee shop] by Kristen Brida. dialogist.org/poetry/2025-...

(this is a calculation) Swing Justice by Meredith MacLeod Davidson, a poet and writer from Virginia. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-...

"When crying, tell me, this tropical scent throughout the rain, and everything I truly wish for..." Afterglow & Recedes by Joefel Bolo, a queer writer from the Philippines. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-...

We buried her deep because / whatever she said happened. Two poems by Arvinder Kaur Johri. dialogist.org/poetry/2024-...