Extremely Poor
Telling is a form of generosity, / Marías keeps repeating throughout his book // like a kind of tolling, and what I like about / the translation is the… More
Two Poems by Roberto Montes
This week in the PEN Poetry Series, PEN America features two poems by Roberto Montes. The Estate Taxed I should have taken the amaranth soap From the rich prick's bathroom Should have mothered… More
Public Works
It was an election year. The switchboards flickered with stars in their / universe of calls. Of all places, a public park. The workers had begun / to dig,… More
Operation Haze
Yesterday I lost two lights / when I ripped the yellow ones / out / Now it’s just me / and a borrowed mile // I think the… More
Heel of My Hand
You are / to me / a big ‘how’ / (like no one / —they say— / asks a billionaire / why they made / 2 billion dollars /… More
from The Lake
An attempt was made. I told S that we are not / the sum total of our mistakes. I said it / as I believe I am the sum… More
Two Poems by Eleni Sikelianos
I was gone and when I came back / you’d voted for the wrong politicians! So many men! / Had I slept for five minutes and found you /… More
conversations from empire
Now, I have always loved the sea. I save whom I can. A baby be damned without a mother. A mother be damned without her child. A man be… More
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