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KOMMA SERIES No. 24 :
“Hive”
by Imran Boe Khan
// published in 2020
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// poetry
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by Imran Boe Khan // a Pen & Anvil chapbook
Imran Boe Khan

Imran Boe Khan is a winner of the Thomas Hardy Award and past nominee for the Best of the Net Award.

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“She said / something doesn’t have to be real to kill you...”

The five poems of Hive beckon noise from the dustheap, and from the silent, awkward-looking devils across the dinner table. Against a general disquiet worsened by the residual damage of addiction and mental disorder, moments of clarity break through, persevering until lines of poetry and structures of reason appear, self-assembling out of the strange lumber of contradictory impulses.

The author wishes to acknowledge and thank the editors of publications where poems or earlier versions of poems first appeared: “Who owns this...” (as “Pull Yourself Up by Your Own Bootstraps”) in Under the Radar; “Body Squatters Caught Dancing” in Juked; “Annunciation” in After the Pause; and “My Father Exhaled like a Firefly” in The Bitter Oleander.
Work by the author elsewhere online
About this chapbook series:

These bite-sized booklets are a mouthful of literature each, intended to be read in a single sitting. When you’re done with one, pass it along! Look for them lying around in Boston, Portland, or New York City. When you see one waiting to be read, go ahead and pick it up. Give it a home in your hands for a ten-minute lit snack. Then when you’re finished, leave it behind for the next person to find, in an ATM lobby, on a train station bench, in the coffeeshop, at the pub.

To request a single copy of any chapbook in the series, or a set of copies in bulk quantity so you can pepper them around your neighborhood, just contact the Pen & Anvil Press and we can put a plan together to mail some over to you. You can reach us via the good folks at the Boston Poetry Union, at 139 Mt. Vernon Street, Fitchburg MA 01420. If you don’t have a stamp, feel free to send us an email.