PEN Poetry Series
Through 2019, the PEN Poetry Series published work by writers from all over the world.
from In the Gun Cabinet
I / was / delicate / as a child / lived / one too / many lives, I / loved me as myself / I was my brother … More
Two Poems by John Yau
Shorthand that he is sacrificial pig / Soon to be dangled plunged flushed or frozen / Before slurping prognathous blob toting lurkers / Mildly curious prop destined for smithereen… More
Five Poems by Rachel B. Glaser
my snake would scare away cops / if they came bothering Mama and me / when we are dancing to our records / high off something Ricky gave us More
The Revolt of the Peasant Girls
Though the fathers and brothers and potential husbands who fought us and fell are entombed and their monuments decorated with cockscomb and digitalis, we wait for the earth to… More
Top Places to Breastfeed
Today I pumped in the Atlanta airport women’s restroom / At the sink while ppl walked past / And I wore one of those bras for hands free pumping… More
Went the Day Well?
He "died" "in the" battle, then fear / "And" sadness infected my milk / "My" baby "died," "on" "the" boardwalk / I "died" when "you" / Turned "your" car… More
from What Is Not Missing Is Light
First an army destroys a temple, the limbs of men and statues are demolished, their names disappear, the soldiers become a hero, then a number, then a statue is… More
from On Walking On
He knew that a planet, too, wanders, open, in a field of asters. And watched / the terror vanish, falling with the trees into darkness. You walk the dark… More
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