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Strange Wind of Starlessness
I’m not trying to reach some divine / ear. Imagine. Where once / was mercy trash now crunches / like leaves under stars / if only there were still… More
A Prayer for Clytemnestra
I had been told that you would come back. I woke with the knowledge of that. But among the gods now there is no one who oversees my actions… More
Prayer Before Dying
Let the oceans be still or roar, as they always have. Please let the world go on as it always has, so that my children will know that only… More
BAHRAIN: Serious concern for the health of academic, activist and blogger Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace.
PEN International is seriously concerned for the health of prominent academic, activist and blogger Dr. Abduljalil Al-Singace, who has been on hunger strike since 21 March 2015 in protest… More
Two Poems by Christopher Salerno
something’s about to be sawed / in the narrow stone alley between / the church convent and our bordering bed / of Double Late tulips opening / now too… More
Dianna’s Milk
Thoughts, like bodies, are varied and unique, and there is nothing better than seeing bare thoughts in a bare body. More
Dog Who Bore a Star
I am the happiness of the world, I am immortal, and today would have been the best day in my life if my dog hadn’t died, which I consider… More
Before and After 2050: The Logic of Peace in Mot-Paradise
We were sworn to maintain our new world with words, not swords. Worromot depended on it. It does not take a genius to re-scramble the letters and come up… More
The PEN Ten with Ram Devineni, Vikas K. Menon, and Dan Goldman
"Storytellers and artists serve as funhouse mirrors that show us versions of ourselves and the world, not as they are but as they could be. We point the way… More
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