The poem by West, who had his own series of pop up stores this weekend selling his “Life Of Pablo” clothing, appears in the publication on a McDonald’s drive through menu screen.

The poet Ocean Vuong says two years after he lost his mother to cancer, he was feeling "smug in [his] healing" — when the worst moment came. "One day, I woke up in the middle of the night, two ...

Tell Me Something Good By Ocean Vuong You are standing in the minefield again. Someone who is dead now told you it is where you will learn to dance. Snow on your lips like a salted cut, you leap ...

The language is correspondingly blunt and profane: unromantic, prosaic, crude. Or at least it seems that way. The romantic poetry of this poem sneaks up on you. Its music is subtle, but unmistakable.