Two Poems by Callie Garnett
This week in the PEN Poetry Series, PEN America features two poems by Callie Garnett. Serial Mom If obsession arrests you in time Consider me ten, when I turned to mom &… More
Goshogaoka
This week in the PEN Poetry Series, PEN America features a poem by Christine Larusso, whose debut collection, There Will Be No More Daughters, is out now from Northwestern University… More
from People Finder, Buffalo
Officers Parisi & McAlister write a false report at the station. / Officer Tedesco files a false report in hell. / Narcotics detective Joseph Cook, during a drunk /… More
How to Let Go of the World
In Flint I turn on the tap and out comes war wrapped in putrid cellophane. In Detroit I flip the switch and boil war for tea. In Providence I… More
from Song of Songs
I’m waking up. God is howling between my legs. Between my legs pulling on my new hair. The hair that’s growing for God. More
Two Poems by Jack Nancy
the first time I read Proust / it’s a booth in a diner, / a once-great American city / defiled under blue fluorescent blue, / over piles of pig… More
My Co-Worker
"My co-worker makes parole. / No goodbyes. Just disappears one day." More
Young Girl Twenty
"The type of chick that young thugs’ll wait on, / and older catz lose they weight on / Modestly fly, sour chicks couldn’t play Dawn" More
All of Us, In Prison
"some prisons, by the night, / will never let you go, / and some prisons, in the light, / will never let you go." More
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