PEN Poetry Series
Through 2019, the PEN Poetry Series published work by writers from all over the world.
Three Poems by Camille Rankine
I have decided I am not // afraid and in this hopeful state I call out to the living / we have been cleansed word has come down /… More
Three Poems by Roberto Tejada
Even with slurred tongue and cracked teeth I discern a benign country beyond for me to / confer there my night custody and coat of arms. More
Two Poems by Forrest Gander
the woodpecker’s / long tongue, forked / at the base of its throat and / wrapped over the top of its head / and around the eye socket, /… More
When She Left
was her face moving or talking, were the words her own; was it because she was missing or because of something else; if moving how grainy, was it from… More
Four Poems by Emily Wilson
Is it to the power of flowering / between the red / and the far-red regions, / against the gloom, / the peony, the poppy, the rose, / the… More
Two Poems by Kirill Medvedev
On the day of my thirty-seventh birthday I ended up involved / in murdering the president. I was in charge of watching the windows of his palace / and… More
Poetry Is Special America
I do not know. I do not know. I do not know. I do not know. I do not know. I do not know. I do not know. I… More
from Ideal Machine
dear son don’t flinch / when he comes for you // singing through my brain my face // lure you wait / shadows flat under the operating lights //… More
Four Poems by Mark McMorris
What more is there to say about tambourines / that mimic the bells on a leather saddle, strapped / to a horse you rode across the Chinese tundra /… More