Literary Zone

American poet Robert Creeley

Night By Robert Creeley, USA Needs most happily mutual, this given, that taken, the board clear, and the food reappears as one (...)

| 5 days ago | 390 views

Sagacity

Sagacity By Gibril Koroma, Canada Loving is an art Gnivol si na tra Love conquers War Evol sreuqnoc Raw Loving is an art Gnivol si na (...)

| 1 month ago | 1438 views

Blind Fish by Yusef Komunyakaa

Blind Fish By Yusef Komunyakaa Caught here in your limestone cave, lost in a limbo of slow water torture, for you, each day is night always. (...)

| 2 months ago | 2129 views

Poem by Subhashini Kaligotla

Requiem By Subhashini Kaligotla Requiem What remains of you beloved to haunt Self like the (...)

| 2 months ago | 5613 views

American poet Constance Urdang

The Madman By Constance Urdang At first, he wondered why he should be spared; Observed, of all the windows, none was barred, And every door (...)

| 5 months ago | 6219 views

Nigerian poet Uche Nduka

A Green Dream Uche Nduka Winter frock marigold robe between brownstones where yearning confesses its nature when the mail makes you (...)

| July 2024 | 5246 views

Russian writer Andrei Voznesensky

From the Window of a Plane By Andrei Voznesensky From MOSAIC In the world of friends, where travel is slower, What do you do there, in the (...)

| July 2024 | 5022 views

Chinese writer Wang Ping

Things We Carry on the Sea By Wang Ping We carry tears in our eyes: good-bye father, good-bye mother We carry soil in small bags: may home never (...)

| July 2024 | 4857 views

Personal reflections on Ismael Kadare

Translator David Bellos shares a series of revealing, funny and moving memories of the giant of Balkan literature, who died earlier this week. Between (...)

| July 2024 | 5372 views

Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott

The Sea Is History By Derek Walcott Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that grey vault. The sea (...)

| June 2024 | 3730 views

American poet Jane Kenyon

The Clothes Pin By Jane Kenyon, USA How much better it is to carry wood to the fire than to moan about your life. How much better to (...)

| June 2024 | 4351 views

Italian poet Milo De Angelis

The Sounds That Arrived By Milo De Angelis The wolf is still under the blanket and a thousand questions are needed to grasp it even if the (...)

| June 2024 | 2721 views