Literatures

American award-winning poet, essayist and translator, born in 1953, Jane Hirshfield is the author of nine celebrated poetry volumes, two now-classic collections of essays on poetry, Nine Gates: Entering the Mind of Poetry (1997)...

Beauty  is a fat black woman  walking the fields  pressing a breezed  hibiscus  to her cheek  while the sun lights up   her feet    Beauty  is a fat black woman  riding the waves  drifting in happy oblivion  while the sea turns back  to hug her shape  from The...

He gives her all the configurations of Europe. She gives him a cloud burst of parrots. He gives her straight blond hairs and a white frenzy. She gives him black wool. The darkness of her twin fruits. He gives...

I can’t love them if their hands aren’t all tore up From something, guitar strings, kitchen knives & grease Burns, heaving the window ACs onto their crooked old Sills come June. Fighting back. That porchlight’s browned Inside with...

Amy Woolard is a legal aid attorney working on civil rights policy & legislation in Virginia. Her debut poetry collection, NECK OF THE WOODS, received the 2018 Alice James Award from Alice James Books...

or how to become a 'feuilletonist' I am a struggling writer, yet to bask in the glory, the glitz and the glamour of literary festivals. The only luck I have had so far is that...

(por el espíritu de poesía en Medellín, Colombia) As if the earth had shifted axis again I walk the streets of your city, Medellín, a hammock of memories swinging in my head – these streets where Escobar’s...

Grace Nichols was born in Guyana but has lived in Britain since 1977. Her first book of poems ‘I is a long-memoried Woman’ won the 1983 Commonwealth Poetry Prize. Other collections include, ‘The Fat...

  Now is the time.      On my monitor, the input line flashes on the blank page.  So many nice characters in my mind, and a good story too … But…BUT --- DAMN not a line!!! Seems...

How the body holds its comforts and suggestions. How it castigates and swelters. Or hardens at night, tough as dirt. How it holds intent like extent and by that, how it holds hope, spread like a...