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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThey/Them

    By Danez Smith
    said short: i feel more like a stud. said
    with some nuance: as if i came to
    masculinity through the women…
  • Poem
    By Asha Futterman
    my job used to be teaching a machine
    to recognize complaints filed against police officers
    that contained…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineMouth

    By Mona Arshi
    When I was thirteen and dumb as bark and
    married to a king and looked into mirrors
    my mouth unwatchable…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFour Tanka

    By Shizuka Omori
    Translated By Yuki Tanaka
    Guilt

    is emptied out of a body

    that stands

    like a scarecrow—

    is that what a poem is?



    Touching is different…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFebruary 14

    By Jesse Nathan
    Going to the Russian bathhouse on Innes
    to lie naked on a shelf in the steam
    while the hatted man
    swanning…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineFlipping the Bird

    By Ann-Margaret Lim
    Holding his stare in mine, I flip the bird
    at a grown man

    on a stool in front of the street bar
    on the …
  • Poem

    poetry-magazine短歌四首

    By Shizuka Omori
    やましさが案山子のように立っているからだを抜けてくるのか歌は

    触れることは届くことではないのだがてのひらに蛾を移して遊ぶ

    後ずさりできぬ鳥たち   二人称をずたずたにする夕焼けだった

    皆殺しの〈皆〉に女はふくま…
  • Audio
    By Omori ShizukaTr. by Yuki Tanaka
  • Audio
    By Mona Arshi
  • Article
    By Daniel Felsenthal

    Dario Bellezza scandalized Italy with unabashedly queer poetry about cruising and AIDS. Nearly thirty years after his death, a new translation brings his work into English. 

    A black-and-white photograph of Dario Bellezza looking down into the camera.
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