Copenhagen Airport
Once a week, the PEN Poetry Series publishes work by emerging and established writers from coast to coast. This installment, selected by Ben Mirov, features poetry by Jason Bredle,… More
Ari Banias: Two Poems
And soon it will rain, and we / will be down in the grass again. / A blade of grass gets thirsty; / it’s nice to think we could… More
Three Lullabies
Dear Frank. I am writing you a letter with nowhere to send it. We’ve taken a room in San Felipe, on the Calle de los Claveles. Separating the bedrooms… More
A Tribute to Pablo Neruda
The Chilean secret police / searched everywhere / for the poet Neruda: in the dark shafts / of mines, in the boxcars of railroad yards, / in the sewers… More
Trajectory
The bullet, spinning / to maintain a shallow arc, / carves a hot thread / through the wind / until it breaks one hair / and the deer’s neck… More
Aufgabe: Salvadoran Poetry Feature
Here in this silence that gives cathedrals no solace / resplendent machetes that bore no bitterness transit still / ring. / How many of our priests warned of… More
Good Kisser
Why the reticence between two strangers diminishes / is for astronomers to interpret. / They do say that in me you will find anchor. / They do say… More
Royal Quiet Deluxe: A Conversation with Matthew Zapruder
My grandfather was one of those people who kept everything in immaculate condition, so the typewriter was perfectly clean and required no fixing other than a new ribbon. I… More
Donald Dunbar: Untitled Poem
A priest, / a rabbi, / and a momentary lack of judgment walk into a bar / and pay their whole lives / for the crimes of a… More