Four Poems by Gala Mukomolova
What this poet calls slippery, what I call smart. Like it matters, like I’m not / pulling rent money out of a dog’s ass. // I was wrong. I… More
Breakout: Voices From the Inside
Featuring award-winning prose and poetry from the 2015 PEN Prison Writing Contest, read by Khalil Cumberbatch, Rachel Eliza Griffiths, Siri Hustvedt, Mitchell S. Jackson, Dawn Lundy Martin, Jeffrey Toobin,… 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
Four Poems by Matt Longabucco
an influential poem by a person long-since changed from the person who wrote it / a bloodcurdling poem by a maniac / an idiotic poem by a tyro /… More
The Book Report: Christopher Soto aka Loma
Not all of these books were easy for me to enter. Yet, all of them have stayed with me and taught me something new about writing, existing in this… More
Two Poems by Erica Hunt
Here a thousand birds dispute / the fresh blood on the sidewalk / the battle line, how it was drawn / how the sides were chosen / had there… More
from Recollections of a Face
There was a slowness of heart. / There was swelling of lungs. / There were Latin terms for everything. / There was walking around in the ward. / There… More
Four Poems by Duriel E. Harris
"Harris's liberatory poetics move between text on the page, visual meanings, and sound meanings. It is in the last category where the poems chosen this month live, where they… More
Six Poems by Lucas de Lima
tree we imagine in memory of the slave who preferred / 200 lashes instead of fulmination / live blood running down the trunk instead of latex in the thorax… More
Three Questions with Dawn Lundy Martin
Are there languages of hierarchy that can attend to the difference between the lack of privilege experienced by the black body in America and the overt censorship in some… More