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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.

From The Homan Square Project by

New Baroque Derangement by

To wring out a trilllike the robed girls by Tommye Blount

Verge by

A Photograph of a Grain of Salt by

Bakandamiya XVI by Saddiq Dzukogi

Land of the Morning Calm by Diana Keren Lee

Needle by Sappho Stanley

Styx by Randall James Tyrone泭

Visitation by

Honey by泭Allison Adair
An Accommodation泭by泭Sandra Beasley
God Letter泭by泭CM Burroughs
Marigolds of Fire泭by泭Ama Codjoe
Buying Back-to-School Supplies by泭Matthew Guenette
Professor Marva Stewarts Funeral Service at Gilbert-Lambuth Chapel, Paine College by泭Kamilah Aisha Moon
Gather by泭Jess Smith
The Most Important Word in This Language by泭Analicia Sotelo

Crack泭by泭
Sunken Place Sestina泭by泭
White Earth by泭
Fawn泭by泭
In Praise of the Names of Things泭by泭Chelsea Wagenaar

Ruth Awad 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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