Sina Queyras wins Poetry Magazine Award

Each year Poetry magazine offers a roster of nine awards to poets and critics whose work has featured in their pages. This year, Coach House poet Sina Queyras took the Friends of Literature award for her poem "Euphoria," an open letter to Regret, Aging, Tobacco, Time and other sinister operatives that lurk among us. Congratulations, Sina!

Euphoria

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Dear Regret, my leaning this morning, my leather foot, want of stone, my age
Old, burnished and bruised, my hair lingering, my hand caked, spongy as
November my dear Relentless, my dear Aging, your voice tinny, dissonant
As Stein shot through decades of war and Fortrel, cocktails on the hour,
Zeppelins over Piccadilly, bombing blindly in the fog. Dear Skin, dear Tobacco
Mouth my refusal, my merely geographic, my fibrous strings for you: your
Abundant wit, your lack of shadow and still joy nosing the air. Each moment
Stretches toward you, your dry feet: I carried them, pumiced and peppery
Laid them where regret is a biscuit thing to lean upon and sweeten,
My hour of you, my cursive thoughts, a pulpit beating under these ribs.

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