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Poets and Cities an introduction by Sandra Alcosser Kevin Prufer Portfolio The Cities, the Armies A History of My Schooling Ants Unlocatable Sadness Increasingly Improbable Portfolios Love is a Bridge of Grammar: New Poems from ELENA SALAMANCA’S Pensamiento Salvaje (Viola Tricolor) translated from the Spanish by ALEXANDRA LYTTON REGALADO The Bottle in My Purse/La botella

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THIS SPECIAL TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE contains a rich and exciting array of portfolios including new work from Kevin Prufer, and newly-translated work, presented in English as well as the original language, from Elena Salamanca, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Mariano Zaro, poets of the Armenian diaspora, among others. We have dug deep into our archives to bring you

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A Portfolio of Poems by Cyrus Cassells

Cyrus Cassells’ six books are The Mud Actor, Soul Make a Path through Shouting, Beautiful Signor, More Than Peace and Cypresses,The Crossed-Out Swastika, and The Gospel according to Wild Indigo. His book of Catalan translations, Still Life with Children: Selected Poems of Francesc Parcerisas,is due from Stephen F. Austin State University Press in April 2019.

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God-Extensions: The Poetry of Dana Levin’s “Banana Palace”

God-Extensions: The Poetry of Dana Levin’s Banana Palace Copper Canyon, 2016 by Emilia Phillips “We used our texting machines / to look up the definition of soul,” Dana Levin begins her fourth poetry collection, a move that destabilizes the reader’s sense of the contemporary moment by linguistically deconstructing the nascent objects with which we are

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Kwame Dawes and the Reggae Aesthetic: a cultural, social and political proposition by John Robert Lee

Kwame Dawes. Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic. Peepal Tree Press, 1999, 2003, 2008. 296 pgs. I. Introduction I came late to Kwame Dawes’ ground-breaking work Natural Mysticism: Towards a New Reggae Aesthetic. I had heard this poet, novelist, essayist, editor, musician speak on the topic as early as 1999 in the prestigious Derek

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On Kwame Dawes by Linton Kwesi Johnson

Amongst Kwame Dawes’ long list of achievements, the Calabash International Literary Festival, one of the best literature festivals anywhere on earth, an eagerly anticipated (now) biennial event that has won kudos for Jamaica, is outstanding. Calabash, founded jointly by Colin Channer, Justine Henzell and Kwame, has become a Jamaican national treasure. Kwame plays a leading

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Maintenant #40: Sergej Timofejev

A urbane, grounded, naturalistic stylist, the power of his poetry has allowed him to implement numerous innovations in a region associated with formalism. Experiments with poetry and music / art installations / performance / video & even computer games, have seen his popularity soar in Latvia, though he remains a poet writing in Russian.

an interview with Sergej Timofejev ( Latvia ) by SJ Fowler

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Maintenant #39: Efe Duyan

…one of the most resolute stylists and theorists of his generation, a lauded Nazim Hikmet scholar and an architect by trade, his eloquent and erudite poetry has earned him a reputation across the continent.
an interview with Efe Duyan ( Turkey ) by SJ Fowler

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Maintenant #38: Volya Hapeyeva

A lauded playwright, critic and linguistic philosopher, as well as a poet, her depth and zest have marked her out as one of the most hopeful female poets writing in Europe at large. Her work is marked but a sensitivity and care that many would find incongruous with her rigour and methodological pragmatism.

An interview with Volya Hapeyeva ( Belarus ) by SJ Fowler

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