Read "Cycle" by John Yau, the prolific and accomplished poet, art critic, and curator who has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism.

Sarah Arvio is the author of night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis, Sono Cantos, and Visits from the Seventh. Her most recent work is a translation of poems and a play by Federico Garćia Lorca, Poet in Spain.

Read "Supernatural Bread," a powerful poem from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo’s 2024 collection Spectral Evidence, which into themes of devotion, beauty, art, and the criminalization of Black bodies, reflecting on justice and how these issues are woven into our present, our history, and the Western canon.