The Keyboards
“As a child, she had prayed for Mozart.” Story of the Week (January 27), by Teolinda Gersão. Selected and translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
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Mythmaking
“We will both skitter and yield in the coming months,/ like the surface of unbuilt ice.”
Poem of the Week (February 1), by Hala Alyan.
a dream of Barbara Hepworth’s greenhouse
“In the grass and tree light and in the trees around me (though I cannot see) the men are turning to gold.”
Poem of the Week (January 25), by Edwina Attlee.
after Francis Thompson: a glosa
“at the turning of the year// in sight of 70, anticipating retreat/ I know the Kingdom’s door will swing//to receive me soon some new year morning…”
Poem of the Week (January 18), by John Robert Lee.
The Child That I Was Not
“I could have sworn the man was Papa, except he was lying on the road, dead…”
Story of the Week (January 13), by Uzoamaka Doris Aniunoh. Selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
The Gypsy/الغجرية
“She knows the time/ from the way the roses bend,/ from how far or near the sky is…”
Poem of the Week (January 11), by Dunya Mikhail. Translated from Arabic by the poet.
Drip
“I remember Rukie telling a group of girls that God is deeply sad whenever we go against his word and give in to the flesh, and I wonder how anybody could feel that way when there is an urgent thread of desire pushing itself out of a body…”
Story of the Week (January 6), by Ama Asantewa Diaka. Selected by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
My mother calls me Srikandi
“A wren/ Of a beached thing, flailing, always once/ Something else.”
Poem of the Week (January 4), by Khairani Barokka.
Foundling
“The couple embraced and stood silent for a moment, listening to the patter of the raindrops outside.” Story of the Week (December 23), by Charles Edward Brooks.
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Lately, I keep crossing
“I think about the woman with the palest skin/ sitting across the table from me. Think most/ of the cavernous spaces opaque by her eyes.”
Poem of the Week (December 21), by Lauren Camp.