summons
“tadpoles appeared—/ small, slippery as sperm,/ sliding through fingers.”
Weekend poem, by Athena Kashyap.
Author of the Month: Anis Shivani
Mr. Shivani talks to Sauleha Kamal about ‘world literature’, the malign influence of the marketplace, and authoritarianism in various guises…
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Lost in the Flow of Time
“Names and butterflies flutter around/ while the literati picnic on the grass.” Poem of the Week (September 3), by Anatoly Kudryavitsky
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Wind Shaping Thirst
“She knows how solitude vases the rose stems/ of unspoken needs.”
Weekend poem, by Charles F. Thielman.
Panorama from the Top of the Wicker Arches
“To the edge of the heart. To the periphery/ where ghost kids kick phantom football…” Poem of the Week (August 27), by Ãgnes Lehóczky
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The goldfish that swallowed my ashes
“The goldfish that/ swallowed my ashes/ now heads down the Tiber.”
Weekend poem, by Daniel Roy Connelly
Poet of the Month: Doug Bolling
Doug Bolling, our Poet of the Month, talks to Camille Ralphs about Magritte, Plato, Wallace Stevens and the ‘great power’ of poetry.
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What is World Literature?
In the opening essay from ‘Literature at the Global Crossroads’, Anis Shivani reflects on the past, present, and future of ‘World Literature’
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Alexandria in World War II
“Since spring, Geneva has thrown open her home to soldiers.”
Poem of the Week (August 20), by Anis Shivani
A Year or Two in Rome, a Week or Two in Paris
“I did notice, though, that the best oranges/ came from the most withered tree”
Weekend poem, by Jeffrey D. Boldt