Category Archives: Guest contributors

Set Out Running: ‘Friend of the Devil’ Has Become a Friend of Mine

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May 5, 2018 by author

By Jeff Knight

How We Met

It’s the middle of the night, early autumn of 1982. A bunch of college kids and a couple of grad students — the coaches and members of the UNC speech team — are … Continue reading→

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‘Sestina for My Unborn Daughter Without the Family Album,’ by Hajjar Baban

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April 28, 2018 by author

Victor D. Infante

Sestina for My Unborn Daughter Without the Family Album
By Hajjar Baban

My mother and I are the same.
Neither of us know simple words
in our languages. Triangle, at all. Love,
sound enough for someone … Continue reading→

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‘Time Capsule,’ by Holly Day

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April 23, 2018 by author

Victor D. Infante

Time Capsule
By Holly Day

Our history has already degraded
to the rubber soles of a pair of shoes
and an ivory thimble.
Nobody will be able to read

the newspapers
destroyed by years of … Continue reading→

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Two Poems in Translation by Narendra Jain

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April 19, 2018 by author

Victor D. Infante

A Photograph
By Narendra Jain

The house that was razed in the last war
Has no roof left
Walls almost dilapidated
And the window panes
Have shattered down on the debris

A black and … Continue reading→

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‘Civil Service,’ by Gary Duehr

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April 9, 2018 by author

Victor D. Infante

Civil Service
By Gary Duehr

This is the winter of dissing content,
Of people trying to figure out what everything’s meant.
In Boston, the streets are slush.
A couple feet so far, another on its way … Continue reading→

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