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Monthly Archives: June 2012
They Got the Guns, But we Got the Numbers: Why Radius Will Continue to Submit to the Pushcart Prize
By Victor D. Infante There is a manner in which you chew too long on irrelevant questions, the way you feel obliged to answer them, but find instead a stuttering nothing lodged in your throat, a stammer as you begin … Continue reading
Posted in Editors
Tagged Counterpoint, How We Read, poetry and culture, Victor D. Infante
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La Revolución Will Not Be Reviewed In The New York Times
By Rich Villar Disclaimers: I’m a poet. I talk a lot about poems. I realize that the argument is about literature in general. You will also notice a lot of politics in this essay. These are not apologies, just recognitions. … Continue reading
Posted in Guest contributors
Tagged Clemente Soto Velez, Counterpoint, Federico Garcia Lorca, Hart Crane, Jorge Luis Borges, Jose Martí, Julia de Burgos, Langston Hughes, Leopold Sedar Senghor, Luis Pales Matos, Nicolás Guillen, Octavio Paz, Pablo Neruda, poetry and culture, poetry and identity, Rich Villar, Sterling Brown, Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams
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Poem by Christine Reilly
Dear Government, By Christine Reilly (In response to your bulletin: “Southpawed sinful guttersluts, they will die with honor only to go to heaven and be seated on the left side of the Lord, the gauche side, God’s unflattering angle. If … Continue reading
Three Poems by Afzal Moolla
The Immigrant By Afzal Moolla Seeking solace. Seeking a home. The immigrant finds, rotten prejudice. Fungal anger. The immigrant, alone, hoping for, A solitary chance. To belong. The immigrant, alone, always, an outside entity. Eternal outcast. A viral threat. A … Continue reading
Poem by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming
Remembering Li, a Tiananmen Activist by Tammy Ho Lai-Ming Clock set forward, Bell early rung. Blinded and made deaf, impossibly hung. A sheet strangely knotted, without sound or sight. Silenced in ear shot. Disappeared in plain light. Tammy Ho Lai-Ming … Continue reading