This week's poem is by Oli Hazzard, whose first collection, Between the Windows has recently been published by Carcanet Press. Hazzard's work is intriguing – playful and formally ingenious while ...

A version of this story ran in the July / August 2023 issue. A seed slowly fractures the soil as it ascends We are descended on the ground before an angel appears With no trumpets or ember shouting ...

Last week on the Seattle Poetry Chain, the delightful Rachel Kessler whipped out a pantoum. I was highly pleased to publish a pantoum on Slog. A couple of foolish commenters didn’t seem to understand ...

The Pantoum is a verse form that derived from the traditional Malaysian improvised poem the Pantun. Imported into the west by the 19th century French poet Ernest Fouinet, the Pantoum is based on 4 ...

Tell me that you do not think of me, that you have forgotten the wild proscenium of cloud, how bodies affix and then elide, the sky’s stenography. I only ask for you to tell me you have not forgotten ...