PEN Poetry Series
Through 2019, the PEN Poetry Series published work by writers from all over the world.
Four Poems by Gala Mukomolova
What this poet calls slippery, what I call smart. Like it matters, like I’m not / pulling rent money out of a dog’s ass. // I was wrong. I… More
What Would Be Up
The I / the guy / retouched / like a billboard / or some kink / you crossed / the line / into bearded / disappearance / you… More
Calling the Water
perhaps the limits of my erotic imagination are boring and predictable // but I will die grateful // for the adolescence I got to have offline // that pines… More
You Surround Me
I’m not the same as myself // I’m not the opposite of myself // I’m downstream from the values of some ancient warrior class that got to decide what… More
Two Poems by Nicole Callihan
These are the things I did with the stick: / chewed it, waved it to the sky, poked myself / in the eye, pretended it was a daisy, pretended… More
Three Poems by Lindsay Turner
the person I love / has a yellow spot in his eye / if he closes that eye several states away / does it still exist // the bells… More
Three Poems from Feeld
unforld mye folde / lik / a chylde debarkynge the old / treee / ekspektynge a hole / mye fase 2 the flore / off a feeld / becums… More
Five Poems by Feliz Lucia Molina
(code of) a black cat projected onto a white wall / (code of) a 404 Not Found projected onto a white cat / (code of) a flower painting projected… More
Two Poems by Laura Eve Engel
In the opposite of woods, in the red ever, I am hungry and you are. // I used to have this job, the bodies entered all at once in… More
Mon cœur mis en trope #1
I haven’t yet begun to use metaphors. / It’s still raining. I don’t use metaphors. / My heart is black and quiet. / My heart has not yet begun… More
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