"To the Woman in Window 8 at the DMV" and "Clams"

New Poetry from The Metropolitan Review

Hilna af Klint, Group IX-SUW, The Wan, No. 9, 1915, Oil on canvas, Getty Images

We at The Metropolitan Review are delighted to have two poems by Donna Masini.

Masini’s poems use wry humor to make observations about the world, language, and paradoxes we just can’t escape. Her observations about life are inimitable, and her use of speech, word play, and questions — both profound and humorous — create poems that capture the essence of what it means to be an artist in a world that tries desperately to restrict creativity.

Please enjoy these wonderful poems, which appear in our inaugural print issue.

—The Editors

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To the Woman in Window 8 at the DMV                                 

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Clams							

Donna Masini’s new book, Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? (W.W.
Norton and Co.) will be out in Spring 2026. Her other books include 4:30 Movie, Turning to Fiction, That Kind of Danger, and About Yvonne, a novel. Her poems have appeared, or are forthcoming in The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Poetry, et al. She lives in NYC and teaches at Hunter College.