Pigeon Pages
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A literary nest 🐦 NYC reading series and literary journal
“Who ever said, that my paintings are not in the traditional Indian style, has poor knowledge of Indian art indeed.”
Oscar Howe’s art accompanies poetry by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and Sean Glatch this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
Oscar Howe’s art accompanies poetry by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and Sean Glatch this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
October 3, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“Who ever said, that my paintings are not in the traditional Indian style, has poor knowledge of Indian art indeed.”
Oscar Howe’s art accompanies poetry by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and Sean Glatch this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
Oscar Howe’s art accompanies poetry by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social and Sean Glatch this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
“here is your whole / self against her whole self / the one with violets in her lap”
Read “Against Her” by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, in the nest now (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
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Read “Against Her” by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, in the nest now (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/against-her
October 3, 2025 at 7:37 AM
“here is your whole / self against her whole self / the one with violets in her lap”
Read “Against Her” by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, in the nest now (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/against-her
Read “Against Her” by @allisonfieldbell.bsky.social, in the nest now (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/against-her
“I want you; I want / to preserve you—like the taxidermist / who transforms a carcass to carrion cast,"
Read “Essay on Vanity” by Sean Glatch, in the nest now (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
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Read “Essay on Vanity” by Sean Glatch, in the nest now (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/essay-on-van...
October 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
“I want you; I want / to preserve you—like the taxidermist / who transforms a carcass to carrion cast,"
Read “Essay on Vanity” by Sean Glatch, in the nest now (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/essay-on-van...
Read “Essay on Vanity” by Sean Glatch, in the nest now (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/essay-on-van...
We have new poems in the nest this week from Allison Bell Field and Sean Glatch (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
October 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
We have new poems in the nest this week from Allison Bell Field and Sean Glatch (🎨: Oscar Howe, courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
Extension alert! We added a couple more days to our Poetry Contest! Send your poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks by this Friday; the winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
September 17, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Extension alert! We added a couple more days to our Poetry Contest! Send your poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks by this Friday; the winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
It’s the last day of our Poetry Contest! Send your poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks, tonight; the winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
September 15, 2025 at 10:12 PM
It’s the last day of our Poetry Contest! Send your poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks, tonight; the winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Not to sound like a ghost with a grudge that crawls out of your TV, but…seven dayssssss! Send us your poetry before time is up.
It’s contest time again! Send your most beautiful poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks, by September 15. The winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
September 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Not to sound like a ghost with a grudge that crawls out of your TV, but…seven dayssssss! Send us your poetry before time is up.
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It’s contest time again! Send your most beautiful poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks, by September 15. The winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
August 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It’s contest time again! Send your most beautiful poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks, by September 15. The winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Christina Quarles’ gestural, abstract paintings confront themes of racial and sexual identities, gender, and queerness.
Quarles’ work accompanies new poems by MaKenzie Copp this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum)
Quarles’ work accompanies new poems by MaKenzie Copp this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum)
August 16, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Christina Quarles’ gestural, abstract paintings confront themes of racial and sexual identities, gender, and queerness.
Quarles’ work accompanies new poems by MaKenzie Copp this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum)
Quarles’ work accompanies new poems by MaKenzie Copp this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum)
TGIF! We hope your weekend plans include writing some poetry and submitting to our Poetry Contest, judged by Cecily Parks. Submit by September 15; the winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
August 15, 2025 at 2:59 PM
TGIF! We hope your weekend plans include writing some poetry and submitting to our Poetry Contest, judged by Cecily Parks. Submit by September 15; the winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
“but there she is / laughing, my grandmother in her hospital gown—”
Read “Lumpectomy” by MaKenzie Copp, in the nest now (🎨: Christina Quarles; courtesy of the Whitney Museum)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/lumpectomy
Read “Lumpectomy” by MaKenzie Copp, in the nest now (🎨: Christina Quarles; courtesy of the Whitney Museum)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/lumpectomy
August 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“but there she is / laughing, my grandmother in her hospital gown—”
Read “Lumpectomy” by MaKenzie Copp, in the nest now (🎨: Christina Quarles; courtesy of the Whitney Museum)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/lumpectomy
Read “Lumpectomy” by MaKenzie Copp, in the nest now (🎨: Christina Quarles; courtesy of the Whitney Museum)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/lumpectomy
“I want a mouthful of vinegar, salt, and all the things I can't have.”
Read “Without Saying Homesick” by MaKenzie Copp (🎨: Christina Quarles; c/o the Whitney Museum)
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Read “Without Saying Homesick” by MaKenzie Copp (🎨: Christina Quarles; c/o the Whitney Museum)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/without-sayi...
August 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
“I want a mouthful of vinegar, salt, and all the things I can't have.”
Read “Without Saying Homesick” by MaKenzie Copp (🎨: Christina Quarles; c/o the Whitney Museum)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/without-sayi...
Read “Without Saying Homesick” by MaKenzie Copp (🎨: Christina Quarles; c/o the Whitney Museum)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/without-sayi...
We have new poems in the nest this week by MaKenzie Copp, just for you! (🎨: Christina Quarles; courtesy of the Whitney Museum)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
August 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
We have new poems in the nest this week by MaKenzie Copp, just for you! (🎨: Christina Quarles; courtesy of the Whitney Museum)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
It’s contest time again! Send your most beautiful poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks, by September 15. The winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
August 4, 2025 at 8:39 PM
It’s contest time again! Send your most beautiful poetry for our judge, Cecily Parks, by September 15. The winner will receive $250 and publication.
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
Find details in the nest and on Submittable: pigeonpagesnyc.submittable.com/submit
“It is too soon to test. We wait. The bleeding will stop or it won’t, and then we will know.”
ICYMI, the winning story from our Flash Contest is in the nest now! Read “Implantation Bleeding” by Olivia Fantini, chosen by our judge, Rachel Lyon (🎨: Debbi Kenote)
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ICYMI, the winning story from our Flash Contest is in the nest now! Read “Implantation Bleeding” by Olivia Fantini, chosen by our judge, Rachel Lyon (🎨: Debbi Kenote)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/implantation...
July 27, 2025 at 7:39 PM
“It is too soon to test. We wait. The bleeding will stop or it won’t, and then we will know.”
ICYMI, the winning story from our Flash Contest is in the nest now! Read “Implantation Bleeding” by Olivia Fantini, chosen by our judge, Rachel Lyon (🎨: Debbi Kenote)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/implantation...
ICYMI, the winning story from our Flash Contest is in the nest now! Read “Implantation Bleeding” by Olivia Fantini, chosen by our judge, Rachel Lyon (🎨: Debbi Kenote)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/implantation...
"When I started, I wanted to make paintings that…you didn't need 'talent' to make. You just had to think in a certain way."
Carroll Dunham’s work accompanies new poetry by Jenny Maaketo and Molly Moran (🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
Carroll Dunham’s work accompanies new poetry by Jenny Maaketo and Molly Moran (🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
July 19, 2025 at 7:03 PM
"When I started, I wanted to make paintings that…you didn't need 'talent' to make. You just had to think in a certain way."
Carroll Dunham’s work accompanies new poetry by Jenny Maaketo and Molly Moran (🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
Carroll Dunham’s work accompanies new poetry by Jenny Maaketo and Molly Moran (🎨: Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
“And we were the laugh track to our sick version of America’s Funniest Home Videos—rewinding/replaying Mom’s punchline.”
Read “In the Oven” by Jenny Maaketo, in the nest now (🎨: Carroll Dunham; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
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Read “In the Oven” by Jenny Maaketo, in the nest now (🎨: Carroll Dunham; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/in-the-oven
July 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
“And we were the laugh track to our sick version of America’s Funniest Home Videos—rewinding/replaying Mom’s punchline.”
Read “In the Oven” by Jenny Maaketo, in the nest now (🎨: Carroll Dunham; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/in-the-oven
Read “In the Oven” by Jenny Maaketo, in the nest now (🎨: Carroll Dunham; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/in-the-oven
“no two things ever really touch– / except on maps. Huron and Michigan look a little like a pair of lungs.”
Read “Lover’s Leap” by Molly Moran, in the nest now (🎨: Carroll Dunham; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
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Read “Lover’s Leap” by Molly Moran, in the nest now (🎨: Carroll Dunham; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/lovers-leap
July 16, 2025 at 3:55 PM
“no two things ever really touch– / except on maps. Huron and Michigan look a little like a pair of lungs.”
Read “Lover’s Leap” by Molly Moran, in the nest now (🎨: Carroll Dunham; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/lovers-leap
Read “Lover’s Leap” by Molly Moran, in the nest now (🎨: Carroll Dunham; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/lovers-leap
We have new poems in the nest this week by Jenny Maaketo and Molly Moran (🎨: Carroll Dunham; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
July 14, 2025 at 10:08 PM
We have new poems in the nest this week by Jenny Maaketo and Molly Moran (🎨: Carroll Dunham; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
“Don’t make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts. Only the facts.”
Harold Edgerton’s work accompanies new poems by Madeleine Mori this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art)
Harold Edgerton’s work accompanies new poems by Madeleine Mori this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art)
July 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“Don’t make me out to be an artist. I am an engineer. I am after the facts. Only the facts.”
Harold Edgerton’s work accompanies new poems by Madeleine Mori this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art)
Harold Edgerton’s work accompanies new poems by Madeleine Mori this week: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
(🎨: Courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art)
“When fresh retina is braided into / burnt fibers, do the living see through the dead,"
Read “Rotoscope” by Madeleine Mori, in the nest now (🎨: Harold Edgerton; courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/rotoscope
Read “Rotoscope” by Madeleine Mori, in the nest now (🎨: Harold Edgerton; courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/rotoscope
July 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
“When fresh retina is braided into / burnt fibers, do the living see through the dead,"
Read “Rotoscope” by Madeleine Mori, in the nest now (🎨: Harold Edgerton; courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/rotoscope
Read “Rotoscope” by Madeleine Mori, in the nest now (🎨: Harold Edgerton; courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/rotoscope
“I sign no lease in Brooklyn, / do not accept the life you envision for me without you.”
Read “Remain” by Madeleine Mori now (🎨: Harold Edgerton; c/o Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/remain
Read “Remain” by Madeleine Mori now (🎨: Harold Edgerton; c/o Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/remain
July 3, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“I sign no lease in Brooklyn, / do not accept the life you envision for me without you.”
Read “Remain” by Madeleine Mori now (🎨: Harold Edgerton; c/o Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/remain
Read “Remain” by Madeleine Mori now (🎨: Harold Edgerton; c/o Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/remain
We have new poems in the nest by Madeleine Mori this week, check them out! (🎨: Harold Edgerton; courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
July 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
We have new poems in the nest by Madeleine Mori this week, check them out! (🎨: Harold Edgerton; courtesy of Whitney Museum of American Art)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
“Spanning from tiny figurines to large scale installations, the works come across as sometimes innocent and sometimes distinctly ominous – but always immensely attractive.”
Louise Hindsgavl’s work accompanies new poetry by Maya Bernstein and Michael Juliani: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
Louise Hindsgavl’s work accompanies new poetry by Maya Bernstein and Michael Juliani: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
June 21, 2025 at 5:19 PM
“Spanning from tiny figurines to large scale installations, the works come across as sometimes innocent and sometimes distinctly ominous – but always immensely attractive.”
Louise Hindsgavl’s work accompanies new poetry by Maya Bernstein and Michael Juliani: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
Louise Hindsgavl’s work accompanies new poetry by Maya Bernstein and Michael Juliani: pigeonpagesnyc.com/poetry
“who gathered these and why / pursue a form that would be razed / by noon."
Read “Sand Mermaid” by Maya Bernstein, in the nest now (🎨: Louise Hindsgavl, courtesy of Hans Alf Gallery)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/sand-mermaid
Read “Sand Mermaid” by Maya Bernstein, in the nest now (🎨: Louise Hindsgavl, courtesy of Hans Alf Gallery)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/sand-mermaid
June 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
“who gathered these and why / pursue a form that would be razed / by noon."
Read “Sand Mermaid” by Maya Bernstein, in the nest now (🎨: Louise Hindsgavl, courtesy of Hans Alf Gallery)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/sand-mermaid
Read “Sand Mermaid” by Maya Bernstein, in the nest now (🎨: Louise Hindsgavl, courtesy of Hans Alf Gallery)
pigeonpagesnyc.com/sand-mermaid