Poems
Fuel Your Nightmares with Hyper-Surreal Digital Short 'Menetys'
3D artist Louis Crevier's interpretation of a poem about death is morbidly beautiful.
Here’s What the Tweets of Nigel Farage, Cher and the LAD Bible Look Like as Poems
Wouldn't it be good to get a robot to turn people's tweets into poems that read like a flunked English Literature GCSE exam? No, come on. It would.
Here's How to Turn Old Tweets into Computer-Generated Poetry
Poetweet is like the muse your Twitter handle never knew it needed.
Did a Los Angeles Teacher Lose His Job over a Jokey Poem About Underwear?
Daniel Yoo, a popular teacher at Ánimo Venice Charter High School, was suspended last month, and nearly 600 students walked out in protest of what they think is a poetry-related incident.
Read These Previously Unreleased Handwritten Poems by a 17-Year-Old Tupac Shakur
The poems were unearthed by his first manager, Leila Steinberg.
From the 2014 VICE Photo Issue: Atlantic Wall
The beachhead is submerged at high tide, so the cliffs form a sheer wall that plunges straight into the sea. As the tide recedes, the waves peel back to reveal a surface pockmarked with thousands of small craters, cavities lined with algae into which...
'Sprezzatura' Basically Means You’re Chill But You Give a Shit
Mike Young is a writer of great grace, which is weird because the things he tends to write about are oatmeal muffins, garbage vacuums, robotic butterflies, Ice Cube, and pretty much anything you could find out in the dumpster behind a 7-Eleven in Weed...
Does American Political Poetry Have a Future?
On any given night there are dozens of poetry events in New York City, and among these younger poets the air is thick with a heightened sociopolitical awareness. It would seem likely that we are brimming over with a new political poetry. Maybe, but not...
James Franco Speaks with Frank Bidart About Poetry
Earlier this spring we asked James Franco to interview the poet Frank Bidart for our June fiction issue. Unfortunately, great work is cut from our print magazine every month, and this was one of the pieces we couldn't fit.
Tim Key Let Us Into His House
Having lunch with Alan Partridge's sidekick and third most famous poet in Britain.
Out of the Pens of Babes
Most writers have been honing their craft since they were old enough to think. In their early years, they produced the same adorable, odd pieces of writing you'd expect from kids who don’t understand the world. Here's a selection of unedited writing...