from KINGED
grass cooling my temples / i thought of miklos / how all i wanted was to / hold miklos / bodies on top of / bodies he wanted /… More
Annalogue on Oranges
that even a dog has more rights to run free. but that oranges glimmer. so as not to be slurped up by dog-tongue. excuse-moi, dog. excuse-moi, docteur. can he… More
The PEN Ten with Nathan Deuel
When you've lived and worked in places where writing can get you killed, where the act of telling the truth can take down powers, it's hard to have anything… More
The PEN Ten with Uwem Akpan
If secondary school girls are being abducted for learning how to read and write, the whole enterprise of reading and writing is destroyed and a whole generation of girls… More
First Husband
He was close by and very eerie / He did not do the dishes / He retreated into our house / or he rode away in cabs / He… More
The PEN Ten with Lawrence Venuti
The translator ... bears an enormous responsibility, not just in relation to the source text, but in representing a foreign culture. Translations can create or strengthen stereotypes of foreign… More
Privacy Policy: The Anthology of Surveillance Poetics
Little has changed since the turbulent summer of 2013, and the issue of surveillance remains an unsolved and chilling mystery. These four poems wrestle with the ethics of observation,… More
Eight Poems by Sara Deniz Akant
a horse / cries through the fog. / the little lion balconies / did stoop before his loss. More
Recommended Reading: Literary Sports Writing
These works of literary sports writing discuss much more than games. Award judges Joel Drucker, Chad Harbach, and Jackie MacMullan have chosen the following nine titles for the PEN/ESPN… More
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