Is There a Translator in the House?
“Sudan’s great poet, dead?/ …Why hadn’t we heard him?/ Why didn’t we crowd the streets,/ mourning like the people of his city?” Weekend poem, by Darrell Petska.
Read MoreDarrell Petska worked more than 30 years as an editor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Before academia he worked as a psychiatric tech/caseworker and nursing home evaluator. His poetry has appeared in ‘Otoliths’, ‘About Place Journal’, ‘Lummox’, ‘HEArt Online’, ‘Blast Furnace’, ‘The New Verse News’ and elsewhere.