PEN Poetry Series
Through 2019, the PEN Poetry Series published work by writers from all over the world.
Two Poems by Mário de Andrade
I’ll go to estados-unidos / and tell every lady on the estados-unidos / that I have nothing to do with them / because i have you. More
Any Place I’d Wanted to Be
In the reverie, it’s a socked in playground / in Douglas, Alaska—near the miner’s / abandoned wood, a pit where went a Chevrolet / in the early 1970s. A… More
Two Poems by Jameson Fitzpatrick
If just one thing about me / I will not change / were different—taller, more man, / more woman, a bottom— / my body could be beautiful, I think,… More
Cento for the Night I Said, “I Love You”
Some say we’re lucky to be alive, to have / a sky that stays there. Above. / And I suppose I would have to agree… / but the hell… More
Division Day
Division occurs when we exit with or / without intention one ruthless enclosure / for another. As when I exit your kitchen / every Sunday after you have painted… More
Two Poems by Camonghne Felix
on a scale of one to fuck you I am / obviously prettier, more compelling / better dressed, better situated for // the fixed follicle of long term care.… More
Three Poems by Zachary Pace
Thousands of trees—each an individual (also belonging / to a genus, family, order, class, division, kingdom)— / surrounded you & me earlier today as we discussed / the insidious,… More
Two Poems by Billy Cancel
we debuted the apple / blossom 2-step around bug house square didn’t / know if it was brazil or christmas spoke a language of / deconstruction… More
Monochords
The heroes pissed on the corner of the street under the thin moon. // He shouted loudly so we’d forget how for years he’d said nothing. More
We’re Your Parents
I dream of my babies becoming Marco Rubio and Obamacare. / I slap my son’s face when gene deletion affects his pronunciation. // When I smell perfume, I call… More
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