Soukaina’s eyes
“The right eye consists of two oceans:/ Black and white…” Poem of the Week (May 19), by Amir Darwish.
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Lampedusa
“…currents of meditated cruelty / pull them namelessly
into a tally/ across the only real frontier…” Poem of the Week (May 5), by Daniel Voskoboynik.
Because everyone needs a roomy place
“…a yurt would make a lighter home,/ the only real friends are in the wilderness,/ every house a prison…” Poem of the Week (April 28), by Jarkko Tontti. Translated from Finnish by Lola Rogers.
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Vivian Maier
“Vivian, maybe the secret was in your name,/a twisted code of semantics. Like the rest of us,/ you were the food you ate, the girl and the candy/ at the movies…” Poem of the Week (April 21), by Craig Martin Getz.
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Contains Spoilers
“the things I long for are edited out of movies. maybe / they just exist, even less than perfection, like love// and rain…” Poem of the Week (April 14), by Carla Jones.
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The Strength
“This was break time/ and Milan in 1990, West Germany/ and Holland…” Poem of the Week (April 7), by Owen Vince.
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On a December Noon
“I took out my pouch, and extracted the wooden pipe/ Swollen recently by the deceased’s lips…” Poem of the Week (March 31), by Arup K Chatterjee.
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Beauty of Lahore
“the sea of motor cars floods these city streets/ as though to stop for a second would halt its tides forever…” Poem of the Week (March 24), by Afshan Sajjad. Translated from Urdu by Jim Carruth.
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How to talk to a former warlord
“Now this one is difficult. Counter-intuitive./ Remember they are still human…” Poem of the Week (March 17), by Heather Bourbeau.
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Four Songs
“…at daybreak at noon/ the sun’s feeble shafts/ step into the room…” Poem of the Week (March 10), by Martyn Crucefix.
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