Forest Primeval: Poems
A series of poems from Vievee Francis's poetry collection, Forest Primeval, a finalist for the 2016 PEN Open Book Award. More
Two Poems by Javier Zamora
Don has always been the wrong word. Not Don: / redacted addresses, .38s, clips in back-pockets. / To see how many he’ll kill, his grandson / throws rocks at… More
A Brief Account of Several Art Events and Other Horrifying Experiences
Have you noticed how all the Mexican poets now / have their little poem about the violence? No? You don’t / read poetry? More
Two Poems by Kate Colby
In hindsight, everything is an omen of everything // that comes after it, regardless of cause. / Or regardmore. There, I’ve coined it. // Everything has been coined at… More
On World Poetry Day Take Action for Dissident Poets
World Poetry Day, marked each year on March 21, is an opportunity to celebrate poetry, the power and creativity of language and to speak out for those poets persecuted… 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
The Collected Poems of Chika Sagawa
All day / I hear the fallen, trampled leaves groaning. / Such is the afternoon of life / It reports the time that has already passed. More
Five Poems by Hannah Ensor
There was a CFP / about vulva-touching / I responded / I said I am currently / touching my vulva / I was accepted / to the conference /… More
Two Poems by Robert Ostrom
What you are about to read is the snake-oil salesman’s last confession. / The salesman loves tar heel pie. / What you are about to read is the memoir… More
from All Along It Was a Fever—a what poem
Until I realized that there are events, in the life of a nation, in the life of a person, which cause time to split, simultaneously calling forth the future… More
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