Beware: Do Not Read This Poem by Ishmael Reed tonite,  thriller  was abt an ol woman, so vain she surrounded her self w/     many m...

Thomas Lynch LIBERTY by Thomas Lynch Some nights I go out and piss on the front lawn as a form of freedom—liberty from porcelain ...

The Infallible Blind Man by José Antonio Ramos Sucre Translated by Guillermo Parra       The indifferent page proclaims from a ra...

The Heretics by José Antonio Ramos Sucre Translated by Guillermo Parra       The maiden leans out to see the fields, to interroga...

The Vengeance of the God by José Antonio Ramos Sucre Translated by Guillermo Parra      The excess of the inhabitants marred t...

Raymond Carver in the summer of 1969 Photo by Gordon Lish All Her Life by Raymond Carver BIOGRAPHY I lay down for a nap. But ev...

Robert Bly THREE POEMS by Robert Bly Watering the Horse How strange to think of giving up all ambition! Suddenly I see with s...

Six Poems  by Rae Armantrout THE GIFT You confuse the image of a fungus with the image of a dick in my poem (understandably) an...

Poetics by Alberto Barrera Tyszka Translated by Guillermo Parra It should be clean and brilliant, like a razor blade sunk in a gl...

Lazy on a Saturday Morning By James Wright Gulls poise on the wet arms Of the woman who is in love with the sea. She floats a...

FAMILY LIFE  by Jacques Prevert FAMILY LIFE (1) The mother knits The son goes to the war She finds this quite natural, the mother...

Jacques Prevert París, 1955 Photo by Robert Doisneau Breakfast by Jacques Prevert Jacques Prévert / Dejeuner du matin (Rimba...

Cuentos en Versos para  niños perversos .  Roald Dahl . Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf As soon as Wolf began to feel That he w...

Renaissance man of the south Gary Younge remembers Langston Hughes, America's most popular poet, whose centenary is celebrated in London...