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Monthly Archives: May 2011
Poem in translation by Asad Zaidi
The Language of Translation By Asad Zaidi What could be a better language than the language of translation A white curtain on which All our handiwork stands apart like dirt All crimes are perpetrated in mother tongues Which always contain a … Continue reading
Posted in Regular contributors
Tagged Asad Zaidi, Bharatbhooshan Tiwari, Looking East, translations
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Radius: Brendan Constantine, Steve Ramirez, Samuel Rees
The Editors Write: There are a lot of currents running through Steve Ramirez’s poetry, not the least of which is an omnipresent sense of gentleness, even when he’s training his eye on the roughest of subjects. Ramirez’s diction and the … Continue reading
Three Poems By Monica Hand
Some sign of nature By Monica Hand That day on the laundry bench outside, an escape from heat of dryers people folding; that day the homeless man from the park nearby out his mind out half his clothes can’t chase … Continue reading
Posted in Guest contributors
Tagged Elegies for Poets, Lucille Clifton, Monica Hand, political poems
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“Reading” Pinsky Reading
In Democracy, Culture, and the Voice of Poetry, Robert Pinsky writes: “The reader is not merely the performer of the poem, but an actual, living medium for the poem” (DCV 61). Note the “merely,” implying that there’s a difference between … Continue reading
Radius: Dodie Bellamy, Daphne Gottlieb, Danielle Montgomery
The Editors Write: There’s a swirling energy in Daphne Gottlieb’s writing that’s extremely difficult to pin down. There’s anger, yes – any sensible person would look at the world and find reasons for anger – but there are also pulses … Continue reading
Poem by Kazim Ali
Poem for impending rapture perhaps — By Kazim Ali What I want to know is: of all the people preparing to be taken in the rapture why is no one as brave as my current heroine, the wife of Lot, … Continue reading
Afghan Women’s Poetry Collected by Sayd Bahodine Majrouh
By Lenore Weiss I discovered the poet Sayd Bahodine Majrouh on a flight from Oakland to New York. Prepared for the six-hour trip to visit my family, I had brought along a number of magazines from my dining room table. … Continue reading
Two Poems by Paula J. Lambert
End Time By Paula J. Lambert Poets fall from the sky as suddenly, as tragically, as red-winged black birds. We don’t question the end of our world, only theirs, sometimes weeping, sometimes cursing, like the colors that pulse as flocks … Continue reading