American poet Tracy Fuad
Birth By Tracy Fuad You were born in a brutalist building. Rising above a long body of water. The body, a bypass canal. You were born (...)
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Birth By Tracy Fuad You were born in a brutalist building. Rising above a long body of water. The body, a bypass canal. You were born (...)
Movable Type By Jonathan Sisson It is not consumption of meat, the great food-chain waste, that makes one ugly. Watching apes pelt (...)
The Vigil By A. Alvarez “The spider love, which transubstantiates all.”—Donne. You stand in the first dumbness of the snow As finely, the gauze (...)
Night By Robert Creeley, USA Needs most happily mutual, this given, that taken, the board clear, and the food reappears as one (...)
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 (...)
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. (...)
Requiem By Subhashini Kaligotla Requiem What remains of you beloved to haunt Self like the (...)
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 (...)
A Green Dream Uche Nduka Winter frock marigold robe between brownstones where yearning confesses its nature when the mail makes you (...)
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 (...)
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 (...)
Translator David Bellos shares a series of revealing, funny and moving memories of the giant of Balkan literature, who died earlier this week. Between (...)
