PEN Poetry Series
Through 2019, the PEN Poetry Series published work by writers from all over the world.
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
Four Poems by Matt Longabucco
an influential poem by a person long-since changed from the person who wrote it / a bloodcurdling poem by a maniac / an idiotic poem by a tyro /… More
Two Poems by Carmen Giménez Smith
What is your provenance / where did you suffer / what is your affiliation / how are you acquainted with industry / what will you bring to our guild… More
Beauty Ditch
I want more silence / I want more epics / when we drive / to the ocean / we have everything / we need / we name everything /… More
from The New York Editions
I have / a lover who has / fallen in love with / an interminable nymph // who keeps him / and his statues / in an underwater cave… More
Two Poems by Erica Hunt
Here a thousand birds dispute / the fresh blood on the sidewalk / the battle line, how it was drawn / how the sides were chosen / had there… More
Just As I As
if the other actors believe you’re the king… so I sang / alas, alas for you as “Him,” again, again at the strain of my range. / the King… More
Two Poems by Molly Rose Quinn
My south dies for essential liberty. // They make the mud there. / Was always death. // The house at the end of the mind. / Our school cafeteria… More
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