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
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
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