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E. Ethelbert Miller: Pick of the Week [ed. Terence Winch]
Photo by Max Hirshfeld _____________________________________________________________ The South Bronx We lived in the land of broomsticks stickball played between cars manholes for bases We ran past fire hydrants and caught balls near curbs Now and…
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For Summer: Poems by Latina/o/xs: John Murillo
Variations on a Theme by Elizabeth Bishop by John Murillo Start with loss. Lose everything. Then lose it all again. Lose a good woman on a bad day. Find a better woman,then lose five friends…
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Danusha Lameris Draws an Ace [by Ace Boggess]
EXPLORATION OF THE GRAND “Dust” by Danusha Lameris https://poems.com/poem/dust/https://www.aprweb.org/poems/dust The universe or the smaller universe of subatomic particles, the heights of philosophy or the depths of psychic disruption and despair, divinities or absences, science…
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In the New Yorker’s summer “flash fiction” series: “Tales Told To Tevye”
In The New Yorker's summer "flash fiction" series, "Tales Told To Tevye" was posted yesterday. You can read the three-art story here. Illustration by Ricardo Tomás; Source photograph by Cornell Capa / The LIFE…
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The Best American Poetry 2020: Series Editor David Lehman, Guest Editor Paisley Rekdal
The 2020 edition of contemporary American poetry returns, guest edited by Paisley Rekdal, the award-winning poet and author of Nightingale, proving that this is “a ‘best’ anthology that really lives up to its title”…
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“Anxieties” [by Donna Masini]
It's like ants and more ants. West, east their little axes hack and tease. Your sins. Your back taxes. This is your Etna,your senate of dread, at the axisof reason, your taxi to hell. You see your past…
