Everyone is a Little Trans
Everyone is a forgotten hit record / Everyone is a little good at sex / Everyone is a little bad at gender More
I Want So Desperately to be Finished with Desire
everyone drags all their past / lovers into bed // all their past beds / & public toilets & foil pipes / & park benches & cutlasses / &… More
Bastards of the Reagan Era
Reginald Dwayne Betts's collection of poems, a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award, turns a critical eye to the harsh realities of American society and its treatment… More
Forest Primeval: Poems
A series of poems from Vievee Francis's poetry collection, Forest Primeval, a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award. More
Two Poems by Javier Zamora
Don has always been the wrong word. Not Don: / redacted addresses, .38s, clips in back-pockets. / To see how many he’ll kill, his grandson / throws rocks at… More
A Brief Account of Several Art Events and Other Horrifying Experiences
Have you noticed how all the Mexican poets now / have their little poem about the violence? No? You don’t / read poetry? More
Two Poems by Kate Colby
In hindsight, everything is an omen of everything // that comes after it, regardless of cause. / Or regardmore. There, I’ve coined it. // Everything has been coined at… More
Two Poems by Justin Phillip Reed
In his hands / my skull opens like a flue. I am coal ash / into winter hubris. He is not the kind / to come with warning. My… More
The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
All day / I hear the fallen, trampled leaves groaning. / Such is the afternoon of life / It reports the time that has already passed. More