We Lived Happily During the War
We Lived Happily During the War By Ilya Kaminsky
I’M GOING BACK TO MINNESOTA WHERE SADNESS MAKES SENSE
don’t you know the sun is only a god if you learn to starve for him?
For a Coming Extinction
By W. S. Merwin Gray whale Now that we are sending you to The End That great god Tell him That we who follow you invented forgiveness And forgive nothing…
“Pity me not because the light of day”
By Edna St. Vincent Millay Pity me not because the light of day At close of day no longer walks the sky; Pity me not for beauties passed away From…
Zombie Apocalypse Now: The Making Of
By Cathy Linh Che Cue soundtrack. The undead include: my grandmother, my older sister, my uncle,…
Notes on “The Scream”
By Edvard Munch Translated by Eirill Falck note 615 Translated from the Norwegian I walked along the road with two friends— the sun set …
The Pain Reliever – PoetryNow
After an artist residency at Chicago’s International Museum of Surgical Science, Carrie Olivia Adams celebrates the lives of pioneering women in medicine during the nineteenth century.
Thirst Trap by Jason Diamond
Bukowski imagines himself among the Rimbauds and Pounds, and that grandiosity is one reason he continues to attract fans—not necessarily readers—drawn to the image of the writer as the dirty-talking…
Pyramid Scheme by Hera Lindsay Bird
…. but i would pay taxbecause i believe that hospitals and educationand the arts should be publicly fundedeven this poemwhen i look at you, my eyes are two identical neighborhood…