from A Parade
the cat is the perfect serendipity of a moment, ashy undulation, heavy sluggish eyes, a couple of idle legs and illusory smell, all of it strangely seductive… More
Two Poems by Jameson Fitzpatrick
If just one thing about me / I will not change / were different—taller, more man, / more woman, a bottom— / my body could be beautiful, I think,… More
The PEN Ten with William Brewer
For me, at the atomic level, the obsession around which all my other obsessions orbit is seeing and making others see… More
from Edinburgh Notebook
In the desert, my love, in the desert I saw an elephant born. Its mother thought it dead, and in her desperate rage, she dragged it with her trunk... More
from Raoul Schrott: Selected Poems
things come to slide · as if one had seen / the earth catch fire as it turned and blacken / the night with the contours of an arm More
from Floral Mutter
I truly wish it were true, to disappear just like this, / no bones no flesh no breath, gone… More
Sekou Sundiata and Charles Lynch on Influences
Poets Sekou Sundiata and Charles Lynch discuss early memories, adolescent anxieties, and the denouement associated with the future of the city. More
from Pearl
That pearl had rolled away from a mound where brightly lit plants cast bold shadows: More
Four Questions for Simon Armitage, Winner of the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation
For the first time in my life I was bilingual, even if I could only communicate with people who had been dead for half a millennium. More
