Rabbi / Robin by Shereen Akhtar Clare Pollard yet his impish wit offers

yet his impish wit offers us all a large dose of saving grace

physical and spiritual state of consciousness

romantic relationships have been a key subject for poets for centuries

but the water that flows through many of these poems

Winner of the 2019 New Poets Prize judged by Mary Jean Chan

Rabbi / Robin by Shereen Akhtar Clare Pollard yet his impish wit offersComplex, melancholic, and sensual, the late Shereen Akhtars Rabbi Robin is at a continuous crossroads of reckoning with queer, interfaith love, addiction and channeling the expansion of this mysterious darkness and light, in which the speaker invites us to kiss the calligraphy on her skin too holy to touch. The words burn. The words are moot. But Akhtars words themselves ask the reader to give so much more of themselves, to consider and make real a