“Part of what I wanted was to create an excuse for people to find themselves in places they might pass by often but never actually stand in. Ditches. Behind shopping centers. Meadows and fields. Service roads.”
Liminal Bingo
The Legendary Iranian Poet Who Gives Me Hope
“Read Forugh’s poems and you’ll find the very forces that shape our moment: misogyny, censorship, nativism, consumerism, the annihilating violence of war. Read her poems and you’ll find that they, like all the best poems, don’t merely offer a reprieve from the abuses and terrors of the world, but a repudiation of the forces that make those abuses and terrors possible: ignorance and political regimes for which ignorance has been and will always be their life’s blood.”
A Box of Slides
A poem from Mike Ladd reflecting on time, memory, love and ephemerality
H.D.: Following Intricate Song’s Lost Measure
The extraordinary life and work of Hilda Doolittle, who wrote under the pen name H.D. mirrors the turbulent events of the 20th century.
Wendy Okeke’s Vision of Freedom
“Nigerian poet Wendy Okeke uses the dark recent past of political failure, youth angst, and government violence against its own citizens as a point of entrance in poems that resonate with sensuality, self-affirmation, and a continuous search for freedom.”
Taigu Ryōkan: You Do Not Need Many Things
“Why are you acting like such a fool?”
I nod my head and don’t answer.
I could say something, but why?
Do you want to know what’s in my heart?
From the beginning of time: just this! just this!
Blossom Drunk: Spring Poems from Basho
Some thoughts on Basho’s spring poems, writings, and journeys, from Arthur Davis.
Poesie del Silenzio/Poems of Silence: Michele Farinelli
Poems and photographs from Michele Farinelli
Three Poems.
I Remember . . .
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