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    Born on a Day When God Was Ill

    By 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.

    A black-and-white photograph of César Vallejo sitting outdoors, chin in hand, gazing off into the distance.
  • Poem

    Little Africa on Fire

    By Cameron Barnett
    This is how the story begins: a touch, a bump, a hot mouth,
    jostled skin in an elevator, escalation, …
  • Poem

    The Rewilding

    By Meredith Stricker
    in the DMZ ravines north of the Kaesong wastes edging
    south of the perfect ruler’s pink and prisoned…
  • Poem

    The Thin Line

    By Meredith Stricker
    Every morning opening the newspaper, I am faced
    with the thin line that divides disaster and deprivation…
  • Article

    Blood on the Cotton

    By André Naffis-Sahely

    New collections by Frank X. Walker and E. Hughes use documentary techniques to dramatize a tumultuous era in Black American history. 

    An illustration of three Black children framed by the legs of a running solider. Other soldiers are depicted at left and right. In the foreground is cotton speckled with blood.
  • Poem

    Passage

    By Jack Collom
      "When one is seen gliding through the woods and close to the observer, it passes like a thought, and…
  • Poem

    Museum of Stones

    By Carolyn Forché
    These are your stones, assembled in matchbox and tin,
    collected from roadside, culvert, and viaduct,
    battlefield…
  • Audio

    The Age of Fire

    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Mike Sonksen on the Los Angeles fires and what it means to love a city in danger.
  • Poem

    Zong! #24

    By M. NourbeSe Philip
    evidence is
    sustenance
    is
    support
    is
    the law the ship is
    the captain
    is
    the crew perils is 
    the trial…
  • Poem

    exodus hong kong

    By Xiao Yue Shan
    1
    listen carefully—there is land or there is water,
    and a time where
    you may mistake one for another.
    there…
  • Poem

    a-ver-y

    By avery r. young
    a•ver•y (ā ver'ē), n. dark(iss) ¹blk-male chile foundate(id) in luv unlimit(id) fuc(k) anthem(s). ²jee…
  • Poem

    Honour Killing

    By Imtiaz Dharker
    At last I’m taking off this coat,
          this black coat of a country
          that I swore for years was mine,
          that…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineTranscendental Love Song

    By Darrel Alejandro Holnes
    This love dares not speak its name
    in some states
    until your eyes say it
    on a beach in Ft. Lauderdale…
  • Audio

    Spirit Times

    Poetry Off the Shelf
    Violeta Orozco on the US presidential election, leaving Mexico, and her connection to deep time.
  • Article

    Coming Undone

    By Jared Marcel Pollen

    On Context Collapse, Ryan Ruby’s vertiginous secret history of poetry.

    An illustration of a skull whose top half is removed. Inside the skull, a standing figure recites while other figures are seated in a circle.
  • Article

    Shock and Ore

    By Alexander Wells

    The German poet Lutz Seiler has spent his career making song from the ruins of history.

    A black-and-white photograph of Lutz Seiler in a leather jacket.
  • Poem

    [       ] noise

    By Victoria Adukwei Bulley
    & even when we said we were alone there was [       ] noise on the radio & there was [       ] noise in the car …
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