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A.E. Stallings on shipwrecks, daylight robbery, and the air in 19th century Athens.
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- PoemBy Olga LivshinDecember. In Odesa,
power stations, shelled.
Your father’s friend
shivers in his apartment
crammed with … - PoemBy Brittany Perhamsilicon valley
The neural nets have been connected.
The director takes the stand:
Accolades should … - PoemBy Omotara JamesWhen we meet at the holiday table, we take turns
and great pains not to remind each other
of our mutual… - PoemBy John MulcareWe inhaled slag wool in the throat
of a Tennessee summer, installing cheap
can lights, like capping off… - PoemBy Sarah Ghazal AliThe man that I love rinses our recyclables.
The first man to love me
bears the face of his father,
whom… - AudioPoetry Off the ShelfCatherine-Esther Cowie on Saint Lucia, breathing life into history, and the violence in our heart.
- PoemBy Michelle Phương Hồ
On my windowsill, there are insects whose skeletal remains
remain intact. Fruit flies or gnats… - PoemBy Edward SalemGod said (and already you can tell
I’m making this up),
If you lift a rock, I am there.
If you lift a finger… - ArticleBy Julia Kornberg
The Eternal Dice shows César Vallejo breaking with the Latin American modernist tradition in poems that mix satire, socialist ideals, and formal experimentation.
- PoemBy Cameron BarnettThis is how the story begins: a touch, a bump, a hot mouth,
jostled skin in an elevator, escalation, … - PoemBy Meredith Strickerin the DMZ ravines north of the Kaesong wastes edging
south of the perfect ruler’s pink and prisoned paradisethere is a climate paying no attention to us where cranes
repopulate serpentine deltas
