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.
“…currents of meditated cruelty / pull them namelessly
into a tally/ across the only real frontier…” Poem of the Week (May 5), by Daniel Voskoboynik.
“…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.
Read More“I am neither ship nor ocean/ I am the thing the ocean wrecks the ship into.” Weekend poem, by Ephraim Scott Sommers.
Read More“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.
Read More“Bruno is lured by their stare into the struggle—/ their unwillingness to ignore…” Weekend poem, by Charles McGregor.
Read More“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.
Read More“add measured doses of sex/ and cigarettes./ yes,/ measured….”
Weekend poem, by Shobhana Kumar.
“This was break time/ and Milan in 1990, West Germany/ and Holland…” Poem of the Week (April 7), by Owen Vince.
Read More“Thomas,/ Apostle to our secular, mocking, murderous/ new age…” Weekend poem for Easter Sunday, by John Robert Lee.
Read More“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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