In honor of National Poetry Month, we’re thrilled to share an all-poetry issue of Cutleaf.
In this issue, Darius Atefat-Peckham reveals the struggle some endure learning to become ghosts before they learn to die in five poems beginning with “The Patient Stone.”
Hannah Bonner explores unrequited, complicated love as a single woman in five poems beginning with “The Prize.”
And Naomi Shihab Nye lingers in the many moments where light is found after loss in six poems beginning with “All the Details Followed by Silence.”
The poems in this issue were selected by guest editor Darius Stewart. Stewart is the author of Intimacies in Borrowed Light, published by EastOver Press, and the forthcoming memoir Be Not Afraid of My Body. This issue features stills from Drunken Angel (醉いどれ天使, Yoidore Tenshi), a 1948 film directed by Akira Kurosawa. It is notable for being the first of sixteen film collaborations between director Kurosawa and actor Toshiro Mifune.