From the magazine:Robben Island
By Pamela Sneed
The only antidote I may have to Trump’s election
is in a small ferry to Robben Island
one that shuttles…
is in a small ferry to Robben Island
one that shuttles…
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From the magazine:Bone Symphony
By Michelle Phương Hồ
On my windowsill, there are insects whose skeletal remains
remain intact. Fruit flies or gnats…- By Irina RatushinskayaI know it won't be received
Or sent. The page will be
In shreds as soon as I have scribbled it.
Later. … From the magazine:Mass
By Othuke UmukoroWhat was I thinking about
on my way here? passing
the small kenkey with rabbit stew joint, passing
Elmina…- By Solmaz SharifStudies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's…
From the magazine:POLICE
By Nicolás GuillénTranslated By Aaron ColemanThis animal calls itself police.
Whistling plantigrade.
Varieties: the English, Sherlock. (Pipe.)
Carter…From the magazine:POLICÍA
By Nicolás GuillénEste animal se llama policía.
Plantígrado soplador.
Variedades: la inglesa, sherlock. (Pipa).
Carter, la…From the magazine:LYNCH
By Nicolás GuillénTranslated By Aaron ColemanLynch from Alabama.
Tailpiece in the form of a whip
and three-pointed hooves.
Tends to appear
with a great…From the magazine:LYNCH
By Nicolás GuillénLynch de Alabama.
Rabo en forma de látigo
y pezuñas terciarias.
Suele manifestarse
con una gran cruz…From the magazine:A Coin Is a Map to a Beheading
By Elizabeth WillisThe vulnerability of the figurehead is at the center of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s painting of Charles I:…- By Anne CarsonIf I were an early person
I'd look for the limits of human wisdom
by going to sacred oak trees
or the local… - By Sylvia ChanI want to begin this poem with two stories:
1. In 1984, my mother was pulled over for speeding in a rural, still unnamed village in Taishan. The cop was a forty-year-old man who let her go because of her age... - By Mike DoughtyHe was jailed for cruelty to insects, and his agent wasn’t answering the phone, so he stayed awake in the cell all night, pictures jumping around his head of the cops and the blowdryer they took as evidence. He used...
From the magazine:
Roll Call
By Erik TschekunowSix times every day we stand at the thresholds
of our cells to be counted, to be matched against
the roster of mugs the guards clutch and riffle
like assembly instructions as they tramp the ranges,
always in twos, keys piggy-bank chanking,
at night waggling...- By J. V. CunninghamPlato, despair!
We prove by norms
How numbers bear
Empiric forms,
How random wrong
Will average right
If time be long
And error slight,
But in our hearts
Hyperbole
Curves and departs
To infinity.
Error is boundless.
Nor hope nor doubt,
Though both be groundless,
Will average out. - By Kevin PruferThe brutality of those two men
who broke into her apartment
and murdered her boyfriend,
... - By Aria AberOver Skype, I try to document my mother’s
bald-shaved youth—she has a surplus in truths,
and science has proven what it had to prove:
every helicopter-screech I dreamed of was my mother’s first.
Rippling my dumb hand, I wake up in childhood’s crypt,
where prayer... - By James CagneyI come from the kidnapped,
the assaulted—
my country’tis of reparations as in-store credit
... - By Emily BrontëO transient voyager of heaven!
O silent sign of winter skies!
What adverse wind thy sail has driven
To dungeons where a prisoner lies?
Methinks the hands that shut the sun
So sternly from this morning's brow
Might still their rebel task have done
And checked a thing... - By CAConradmelting glaciers
frighten me when
appearing on
my street as
downpours
a feeling I send
...