PEN Poetry Series
Once a week, the PEN Poetry Series publishes work by emerging and established writers from coast to coast. The series is edited by Danniel Schoonebeek, along with a rotating group of guest editors. Subscribe to the PEN Poetry Series mailing list and have poems delivered to your email as soon as they’re published. Submissions are currently closed, but please feel free to familiarize yourself with our submission guidelines. Due to the extremely high volume of submissions we receive for the series, we are unable to respond to each individual submission, though you are welcome to follow up with us at [email protected] about your submission.
Two Poems by Francis Ponge
(These are the pear-trees that are given to you in today’s human terms.) Look how the pear-trees want to say themselves today. More
Two Poems by Brian Foley
Here / is what we know. / This is the music / they would listen to. / They were addicts. / Here is what we know. /… More
Oakland, Cal.
The horses go running through my mind. My student says / She wouldn’t believe police if they told her the sky is blue. More
The Transformation
In deeper waters / were hairtail, and cuttlefish. Hairtail were called knife fish / in my language. If you’re shipwrecked, some say, / knife fish are the first… More
from Airstrip Falconry
my brother died that day / already at twenty-three / past highway 7 if wishing what / he’d stay for wasn’t me / wasn’t someone else // the smell… More
Four Poems by Noah Burton
I soaped my mug / and now I’m clean. / Why then now do I / sud around the block / with a coffee can of worms / in… More
from Embraces the carrion
In Istanbul, you say, they took the dogs from the streets / Brought them to islands. / Then they took down the oldest Roma neighborhood to build houses Byzantine… More
from Gates & Fields
And in yesteryears when days seemed long / A bell around her very neck / We were there saying come what you are / We were there saying More
Extremely Poor
Telling is a form of generosity, / Marías keeps repeating throughout his book // like a kind of tolling, and what I like about / the translation is the… More
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