Darius Atefat-Peckham is the author of Book of Kin (Autumn House Press, 2024), winner of the Autumn House Poetry Prize, and editor of the posthumous collection Deep Are These Distances Between Us (CavanKerry Press, 2023) by his mother, Susan Atefat-Peckham. His work has recently appeared in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, Shenandoah, Rattle, The Journal, The Georgia Review, and elsewhere. Atefat-Peckham grew up in Huntington, West Virginia, and is a fellow at the Michener Center for Writers in Austin, Texas.
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
And As A Statue, Still, I Reach for It
Hand, he’d command like a surgeon reaching for instrument. Times youwere away, time I made my ownway across the busy intersection, under the over-pass, that empty parking lot, into prayer—The […]
Forough Farrokhzad Folio
Summer 2025
The Pilgrimage
Something here is unnatural. The fish glowingat our toes, the Sprite cans crushed onshore.How good it feels being here, sharing waterin the exact clean warmth of the tub beforemy brother […]
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Summer 2025
Reborn
Oh sky, if one day I want to fly from this silent prison what should I say to my weeping child? “Forget about me, for I’m a captive bird”? — […]