Today's poem is
"Against Heaven"
from Beloit Poetry Journal
Kemi Alabi
is the author of Against Heaven (Graywolf Press, 2022), winner of the Academy of American Poets First Book Award. Their work appears in Poetry, the Atlantic, Boston Review, Best New Poets, and elsewhere.
Books by Kemi Alabi:
Other poems on the web by Kemi Alabi:
Seven poems
Two poems
"Against Heaven"
"Soft & Beautiful Just For Me Relaxer, No-Lye Conditioning Creme, Children's Regular"
"The Lonely Dream in Fevers"
Two poems
"A Wedding, or What We Unlearned from Descartes"
Two poems
"you must believe in spring"
Two poems
"The Lonely Sleep Through Winter"
Kemi Alabi's Website.
Kemi Alabi on Twitter.
About Beloit Poetry Journal:
Subscription: 1 year (4 issues), $18
Home
Copyright © 2002-2022 Verse Daily All Rights Reserved
Beloit Poetry Journal * P.O. Box 151 * Farmington, ME 04938
Editor: John Rosenwald & Lee Sharkey
February 28, 2022: "A Brief History of the War" by Kathryn Bratt-Pfotenhauer
December 19, 2020: "The Comedian" by Michael Bazzett
December 18, 2020: "Night Coyote" by Tennessee Hill
December 17, 2020: "Elegy Begun in July" by Becka McKay
April 26, 2020: "The Decision" by Jen Givhan
April 25, 2020: "The wovenness" by Carol Ann Davis
April 24, 2020: "Word Problem" by Adam Tavel
May 25, 2019: "Diorama (woman given all the children)" Catie Rosemurgy
May 24, 2019: "The Lesson" Helena Mesa
March 1, 2019: "The Minnesota State Fair's Miracle of Birth Center, sponsored by Subaru" J. Bailey Hutchinson
February 27, 2019: "If I Could, or Poem Against the Crumbling of the Republic" Joe Wilkins
February 1, 2017: "Religious Experience" by Christopher Howell
January 31, 2017: "Religious Experience" by Landon Godfrey
January 30, 2017: "The History of Running" by Elizabeth Langemak
March 2, 2016: "Easter Island" by Pamela Alexander
March 1, 2016: "Easterhouse (Wyoming)" by G. C. Waldrep
February 29, 2016: "Matryoshka (as Madness)" by Alexandra Teague
December 24, 2015: "Circle" by Bruce Bond
December 23, 2015: "Algebra of the Sky" by David Hernandez
December 22, 2015: "In Its Body" by Karina Borowicz
December 21, 2015: "Economica" by Tony Hoagland
August 13 2015: "I Went to the Market" by Michael Bazzett
July 29 2015: "Animal Space" by Sarah Rose Nordgren
July 28 2015: "koalas" by Jan Wagner (tr. David Keplinger)
July 27 2015: "I Also Do Impressions" by D.A. Powell
January 31, 2013: "Audubon Ate His Birds" by Kristin Robertson
January 28, 2013: "As Vivien As Blanche" by Mark Anthony Cayanan
January 26, 2013: "Landscape After Years With Yourself, West Texas" by Shamala Gallagher
March 24, 2012: "Lungful" by Brian D. Morrison
March 22, 2012: "The Decorator Crab," by Sarah Giragosian
March 21, 2012: "The Man in the Moon Retires to a Small House in a Valley" by Rick Bursky
December 2, 2011: "A Report" by Steve Langan
March 14, 2011: "Sometimes a woman sets off alarms" by Anna Journey
November 29, 2010: "Thirst" by Jennie Wrisley
November 26, 2010: "Lobster" by Matthew Minicucci
February 28, 2010: "A Whipsaw Takes Two Men" by Patricia Lockwood
February 25, 2010: "Blót" by A. E. Watkins
February 20, 2010: "Contrast" by Jericho Brown
February 16, 2010: "No Narrative" by A. E. Watkins
November 11, 2009: "Wedding Piñata" by James Hoch
November 10, 2009: "Stray Paragraphs, February, Year of the Rat" by John Estes
November 8, 2009: "Evasion of Privacy" by Jordan Davis
November 6, 2009: "The Interior Weather of Tree-Clinging Birds" by Sandy Longhorn
Archives
Web Weekly Features
Support Verse Daily
About Verse Daily
FAQs
Submit to Verse Daily