The earth had stopped turning
“I, who surrendered there beneath the cocoa trees/ where the elephant rots/ oh God in heaven…” Poem of the Week (November 18), by Enoh Meyomesse. Translated from French by Grace Hetherington.
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Vodka
“…loud fathers who shout at television anchors/ are best avoided…” Weekend poem, by Ashok Niyogi
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Of Idol Worship
“This is the effect of atheism on a certain mould/ of character – you build your gods out of stray people.” Poem of the Week (November 11), by Monidipa Mondal.
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Dark Veins
“…street that leads/ like a dark vein/ toward my heart/ in Freedom Square…” Weekend poem, by Ali Abdolrezaei. Translated from Persian by Abol Froushan
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Boum
“No more Boum from his lips, no more swinging/ hips and lyrics. Thin as Fred Astaire he wore a thousand/ melodies…” Weekend Poem, by William Page
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Motif
“a postcard motif:/ white house, black key of seagulls./ The hair smells of sugar…” Poem of the Week (October 28), by Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkalo. Translated from Polish by Elżbieta Wójcik-Leese.
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Caramel Lips in Africa
“How did she not bewitch you with the dancing in her golden eyes?/ Dewy and trusting – like when she fell asleep once, under that baobab tree, to the music from an African rainfall?…” Weekend Poem, by Zvezdana Rashkovich
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Imagine the baker
“you need to imagine the circle line/ as a happy circle line/ while backyards and the heavens in your eyes/ pass day after day…” Poem of the Week (October 21), by Sybil Volks. Translated from German by Paul-Henri Campbell.
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Lily is 7 Today
“I’m not contrary, I just suck you into my culture and floss with my G-string,/ I learn to read palms like veins in leaves…” Weekend Poem, by Lydia Hounat.
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Free Spelling and The Textual Vernacular: On Poetry After The Internet
Continuing our series on post-internet poetry, Leo Mercer argues for the adoption of free spelling.
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