This Valentine's Day, Spread Love Apogee-Style 💘

Dear loves,

This Valentine’s Day, send some ~digital~ literary love to your family, friends and lovers. In our first-ever Valentine's Day fundraiser, the Apogee team has crafted a variety of digital Valentine’s featuring a selection of 5 poems from our archive that explore all different kinds of love, loving, and yearning.

From the erotic, platonic, to the familial, there’s a Valentine fitting for the different loves in your life. Buy a Valentine for $5 (or a bouquet of 5 for $20) and support our programing for the year. Order poems by February 12th and we’ll send it to your Valentine(s).

Your support is invaluable. Funding for the arts is more precarious than ever. Apogee is ineligible for some of our previous grants due to the Trump administration’s attack on the arts. More importantly, we refuse to compromise our integrity for funding that goes against our core values. As a platform by and for writers from the margins, your support helps us thrive in these difficult times.

With love and warmth,

Team Apogee

✍🏽 Poems

Poem #1: after the fall by Shelley Feller

Poem #2: Epilogue by Julia Guez

Poem #3: Risk by Sam Sax

Poem #4: They Say It’s Better to Have Loved and Lost Than to Never Have Loved at All by Noah Arhm Choi

Poem #5: Slow coup (for ancient music) by Imani Elizabeth Jackson

Apogee Journal Valentine's Day Fundraiser