Bee Alliance
this day was meant for something else / burn the barn / horses hate them / fuck the barn / fuck the rancher and his barbed wire / shake… More
Replacement Songs
An experiment called soon / I’ll fall asleep in your pick-up / beyond the near grey mountains / smiling up at the moon and / here’s one called the… More
PEN Podcast: Gregory Pardlo Reads Poetry from “Digest”
Gregory Pardlo reads from his Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection "Digest." More
Poets Rally for Iranian Colleagues
We the undersigned poets join with PEN American Center to appeal for the immediate nullification of the sentences given to poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Mousavi. More
from Explosion Rocks Springfield
I remember the breeze right before… / Burs of—was it willow—slant-falling. / The gray sidewalk, schist granules, scattering. / A brown dumpster lid smushing its green plastic, sandwich meat.… More
The PEN Ten with Robin Coste Lewis
"I have a responsibility to history to get out of the way and try as best I can to document what I see, even if it is internal, because… More
PEN Podcast: Bravery In Poetry – Edward Hirsch on Joseph Brodsky
Joseph Brodsky, a Russian and American poet and essayist expelled from the Soviet Union in 1972, won the Nobel Prize in Literature 28 years ago today. Listen to Edward… 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
Iran: Poets’ Sentencing Signals New Low
Iranian poets Fatemeh Ekhtesari and Mehdi Musavi have been sentenced to 11. 5 and 9 years in prison, respectively, and 99 lashes each in what PEN American Center today… More
Two Poems by M. NourbeSe Philip
rupert and his mother / one such family / wearing hair in dread / locks furious / fear / he will be killed / young white woman / falling apart /… More
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