Beauty Ditch
I want more silence / I want more epics / when we drive / to the ocean / we have everything / we need / we name everything /… More
The PEN Ten with Martín Espada
"As a poet with a background in law, I am obsessed by the philosophy, the poetics, and the practice of justice. I am obsessed by what Whitman calls, 'the… More
The Book Report: Christopher Soto aka Loma
Not all of these books were easy for me to enter. Yet, all of them have stayed with me and taught me something new about writing, existing in this… More
from The New York Editions
I have / a lover who has / fallen in love with / an interminable nymph // who keeps him / and his statues / in an underwater cave… More
Two Poems by Erica Hunt
Here a thousand birds dispute / the fresh blood on the sidewalk / the battle line, how it was drawn / how the sides were chosen / had there… More
The PEN Ten with Janet Peery
I would caution us to refrain from spending too much time in articulating [writers'] collective purpose for fear of leaching the blood out of the “uncontrollable mystery on the… More
Series Launch: The PEN Book Report
PEN America launches a new series that asks writers to question the notion of "best of" book lists and share the top five books that inspire them and challenge… More
The Book Report: Fatimah Asghar
I used to have to wash my hands before touching books. In our house, books were sacred—we were not allowed to leave them on the floor or strewn about.… More
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