An Excerpt from ‘The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks’
In 'The Ukrainian and Russian Notebooks: Life and Death under Soviet Rule,' award-winnng illustrator Igort details the assassination of Anna Politkovskaya, Russian journalist and human rights activist who spoke… More
The Greatest American Patriot from Puducherry
I make friends only with my kind, because I’m smart. I don’t make friends with people who insult us…You don’t know, Papa. You stay inside and write your books...do… More
Isla Mujeres
Listen sweetheart. There are only two types of people in this world. Sharks and Tuna. Sharks are apex predators. They go after what they want. Tuna feeds the world.… More
Elegy for the Police State
Who to call when you get robbed // or hit with a bat. Who else to feed the dogs / of entropy & personal choice, the price // we… More
Saturn Rising
Your next visit to the Hole will be in three months. More
The PEN Ten with Ishion Hutchinson
"You are naturally paying tribute to the dead and the living, because a poem is the vehicle of reciprocal tension between what came before and what is present." More
from Young Americans
because in those days / our boys / the boys that were a part of me / of my life / were the ones who went to the slaughter… More
Four Poems by Gala Mukomolova
What this poet calls slippery, what I call smart. Like it matters, like I’m not / pulling rent money out of a dog’s ass. // I was wrong. I… More