Two Poems by Mark Cugini
A white man says we need to set a higher bar for / terrorism and then rides off my timeline on a police horse. There's nothing new / I… More
The PEN Ten with Ross Gay
"My responsibility now feels to be, among two thousand other things, to explore what is lovely and necessary and to be adored and cared for and held up." More
Mars(eillaise)
I died for Easter day and resurrected just / Like him for a week at the hospital I was high on morphine / And the nurses all laughed… More
The PEN Ten with Jack Livings
"[Tell] it straight, tell it slant—just tell all of it. Anything that can be done on the page, probably should be. It doesn’t matter whether or not we, as… More
Abomination
Bademosi writes about his life as a renowned Pentecostal preacher boy and exorcist, who fails to cure his twin sister of insanity or himself of homosexuality, until he finally… More
How to Make a Bitch Give Up Beef
A satire about the violence that erupted after the 2012 Hyderabad Beef Festival organized by lower-caste Dalit students at Osmania University in India. More
Two Poems by Abdellatif Laâbi
she would pull her headscarf off / and strike the floor seven times / cursing the heavens and the Tyrant / I was in the cave / where convicts… More
A Suitable Foundation
I think if I popped you a bunch of snakes would wriggle out. Well go on then, you can say something, I think. I’m giving you permission, I… More
from Weirde Sister
I have a ring that throws up when a cat dies / I have a ring where instead of a jewel it has one of God’s baby teeth /… More
The PEN Ten with Khaled Mattawa
"Being uninhibited is not the only imaginative state that artists should seek to be all the time." More
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