By Paweł Marcinkiewicz Polish Poetry in Sweden “Sorangens Folkhogskola,” is a local university in Nassjo, a small town in southern Sweden. Since 1987, it has organized one of the most interesting poetry festivals in the world. The “Nassjo poesifestivalen” (http://www.lj.se/poesifestivalen) usually has a thematic focus. Previously, they had an American year when they invited such […]
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From Margo Berdeshevsky Notes from this side of the Seine: Paris, winter rides into spring, 2011 Dear ones, Winter was “icumin in, laude sing goddam.” Well it did. And hence, a quiet winter season where one wanted to hide, mostly, and think of nothing. Except perhaps a solarized and pewter river. Or the
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Eve Grubin describes how she met Sinead Morrissey among other things in this letter from London.
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from Margo Berdeshevsky Paris, late autumn, 2010 Dear Ones: I’ve been on the road these recent days. But carrying my European and Parisian-influenced mentality with me along the way, I aver. I won’t comment here on the endless French strikes; or even on the most recent American losses; there is and has been more
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From Azadeh Kamyar Taste of sun I can still feel it in my mouth the taste like sun ravenously we drank together from a bowl full of snow Call me Winter is close … I don’t live in Tehran. This crowded metropolis is not a proper place to live for such an introverted
from Margo Berdeshevsky Paris, autumn 2010: King Lear: O, reason not the need! Our basest beggars Are in the poorest thing superfluous. Allow not nature more than nature needs, Man’s life is cheap as beast’s. Thou art a lady: If only to go warm were gorgeous, Why, nature needs not what thou gorgeous wear’st Which
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from Margo Berdeshevsky Paris in June has many—but one—particularly small and yet grand event: Le Marché de la Poésie, a country-fair type idyllic market place, in the middle of the city of light—for poetry. Not the football field size convention center fairs the USA has in large numbers; not the AWP with its 9000 wishing
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