Self Portrait as State Property
"Eleven A oh six seven one they call as the boy not quite a man / Moves further down the line like a lamb in a slaughterhouse" More
As I Hear the Rain
"She had / Never understood my fascination / With the smell of dirt and fertilizer / Trapped in rows of rotting wooden benches." More
Time Reversal Invariance
"It used to be that physicists / thought the world might run / the same forward as in reverse: / that is to say, we had no means / to know which… More
Three Poems by Vasko Popa
You didn’t have a real father / The day you first saw the world within you / Your mother was not at home / It was an error you… More
Overcoming Hate: Mira Jacob Recommends Poetry by Ashley M. Jones
Mira Jacob recommends an excerpt from the poem "Who Will Survive in America? or 2017: A Horror Film" by the poet Ashley M. Jones. More
The Little Syrian Girl
"As we held hands to school, I asked her again— / my mouth, a broken faucet. She held frozen. Always / did when I brought up Baba, or Syria,… More
Resurrection Rock
it’s true we called them pigs // said we hated them / feared them // said fuck them / when they weren’t around // I guess that was the… More
Two Poems by Ariana Reines
Also / True was that I had not been fucked correctly // In what was starting to feel like a long / Time. I used the apps but did… More
Two Poems by Deborah Landau
Do what you want / and now. // Soon laid deep beneath / the flimsy weeds we’ll be More
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