Literary Zone

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 (...)

| 1 hour ago | 31 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 (...)

| 3 days ago | 247 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 (...)

| 3 weeks ago | 868 views

Poem by Subhashini Kaligotla

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

| 1 month ago | 1080 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 (...)

| 1 month ago | 927 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 (...)

| 1 month ago | 1630 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 (...)

| 1 month ago | 1140 views

Japanese poet Yuki Tanaka

Aubade By Yuki Tanaka I sit on a chair and the chair touches me back. According to my chair, I have two hips and bones inside them hard as (...)

| 1 month ago | 1932 views

Chinese writer Zheng Xiaoqiong

Water Becomes Water By Zheng Xiaoqiong Water becomes water’s shape in the water, inside the machine we become the image of the machine, the dusk (...)

| 2 months ago | 2218 views

British writer Malachi McIntosh

Malachi McIntosh was born in Birmingham but raised in the United States. He worked for five years in academia after completing a PhD in English, but (...)

| 2 months ago | 2772 views

French writer Maryse Condé

Maryse Condé (née Marise Liliane Appoline Boucolon) 11 February 1934 – 2 April 2024) was a French novelist, critic, and playwright from the French Overseas (...)

| 3 months ago | 3387 views