
LETTER FROM PARIS in March, 2019 from MARGO BERDESHEVSKY Untitled The man is quickened to memory a star risen to where none may touch but his poems and this iota…
LETTER FROM PARIS in March, 2019 from MARGO BERDESHEVSKY Untitled The man is quickened to memory a star risen to where none may touch but his poems and this iota…
Ecopoetics: a Column First, consider this poem: Surprise by Michael Radich That plastic bug, thrust close, gave our little girl a startled fright! A busker ends his drumming; a burst…
Nasser Rabah is a Palestinian poet born in Gaza. He has published several books of poetry in Arabic. In the United States his work has appeared in journals such as…
On the Vulnerability of a Strong Poet: Translating Akhmatova’s Female Love In the West, Anna Akhmatova is broadly known as one of the most powerful voices for poetry of witness….
Translation as activism: an updated version of Rubén Darío Raised by an immigrant parent from Nicaragua, my siblings and I spoke Spanish with our mother while growing up. Amongst…
It is 3:30 in the morning here, and the email chime on my phone rings. In Syria, it’s 10:30 a.m. Saleh Razzouk writes, “I am happy you are not on…
Letter from Beijing 4: Poets from the Yangtze River 北京来信:来自长江/ 汉水的湖北诗人 by Ming Di This week in Beijing’s packed with events. After the final reading yesterday (October 12, 2017), Tracy…
Life and Times — On John Robert Lee’s Collected Poems 1975-2015 By Vladimir Lucien About a month ago, I saw Robert Lee having lunch with a few of his mates….
LETTER FROM BEIJING 3: HOW WOULD LI BAI WRITE TODAY? 北京来信3:李白活在今天会怎样写诗? LIGHT UP By Chen Dongdong 陈东东 Light up an oil lamp in the rocks so they can…
In the River by Carmen Radley Last May, on a warm Friday evening, I stood on the north bank of the Rio Grande. I gazed south and noted that…