Tag: Poetry

  Murat Nemet-Nejat: Poet, Translator, Essayist was born in Istanbul, and has lived in the United States since 1959. His works ...

Vermeer's Jacket Wouldn’t you love to crawl inside that luscious gold? To wrap yourself inside the satiny, charmeuse, rustling raiment, ...

Oh, weren’t they lucky The ancient Greeks with their chorus So smart at fixing up plagues, tetchy gods, Incest, families, ...

Going to the Edge of the Land   We drove and drove, taking rest under Australian weeds the comfort station ...

  FROM THE PORTHOLE   To be in the world as on a ship: to attend to the wellbeing of ...

Howard Zinn once said, “Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.” These words captivated me in ...

  Sanghamitra Halder   Light- Gloom   I feel to say, you grow up Grow more, overcome this shoulder The ...

Prodigy   Today’s task consists in carrying a stone from here to over there. It’s a heavy one, weighs more ...

    From “Sussulti oculari” (unpublished, 2012)   CROCUS 2   Flow back into the veins, History: ’68, Pedro Alvarado, ...

    A collective, multilingual reading in solidarity with jailed Palestinian/Saudi poet Ashraf Fayadh took place on 14 October in ...