Katie Griffiths
Katie Griffiths grew up in Ottawa, Canada, in a family originally from Northern Ireland. In 2019 she was awarded second prize in the National Poetry Competition with ‘Do not indulge indigo’ and had the...
Dorianne Laux – Evening
Moonlight pours down
without mercy, no matter
how many have perished
beneath the trees.
The river rolls on.
There will always be
silence, no matter
how long someone
has wept against
the side of a house,
bare forearms pressed
to the shingles.
Everything ends.
Even pain, even...
Dorianne Laux
Pulitzer Prize finalist Dorianne Laux’s most recent collection is Only As The Day Is Long: New and Selected, W.W. Norton. She is also author of The Book of Men, winner of the Paterson Poetry...
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) is one of the three films in the history of cinema which ever won all five major Academy Awards such as: Academy Award for Best Director to...
Laura Maria Zanetti – Kiss Me
take my scream away the scream inside out
when they’ll attack
in the absence of the moon
lead me
into the sweet
oak forest
and
on the humus of putrid leaves
where little treasures are hidden
for the rich
kiss me
kiss...
Laura Maria Zanetti
Laura Maria Zanetti, born in 1949, under the sign Aries, lives in Telve di Trento, with some periods of time in California, which is where her eldest son lives.
In 2000 she founded, and was...
Zazie in the Metro
The film, released in 1960, is based on the novel of the same name by Raymond Queneau, an author very much in vogue in those years. The plot, as in all the writings of...
Wislawa Szymborska – Writing a résumé
What needs to be done?
Fill out the application
and enclose a résumé.
Regardless of the length of life
a résumé is best kept short.
Concise, well-chosen facts are de rigueur.
Landscapes are replaced by addresses,
shaky memories give way to...
Michael Rothenberg
Michael Rothenberg is co-founder of 100 Thousand Poets for Change and co-founder of Poets In Need, a non-profit 501(c)3, assisting poets in crisis. His books of poetry include Drawing The Shade (Dos Madres Press,...