Jane Hirshfield

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)...

Grace Nichols – Beauty

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...

Grace Nichols – Configurations

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...

Amy Woolard – Laura Palmer Graduates

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

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...

Chandramohan Sathyanathan – From the Beach to the Hotel Room

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...

Grace Nichols – Lost in Translation

(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

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...

Heiko H. Caimi – The Blank Page

  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...

Katie Griffiths – How the body holds

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...

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Laurence Hutchman – Lost Language

These photo albums span the decades: wartime, marriage, early years in Canada. The sounds of Dutch swell within me. I read a language I knew and forgot— “J’s”...

Giuseppe Genna – Big Red Mother

  Guido Lopez, an interim detective at the Milan central police department, is playing tennis with a stranger. Immediately after, a huge explosion shakes his...

Fabrizio De André – Storia di un impiegato [A Clerk’s Tale]

  Storia di un impiegato, the sixth studio LP by Fabrizio De André, written with Giuseppe Bentivoglio and Nicola Piovani, came out in 1973. Like...

Marguerite Duras – Blue Eyes, Black Hair

The indefiniteness of love Emotions that chase each other on a stage made of nothing. Gestures told with great elegance and care, without a defined...