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Two Poems by Bob Holman: You Choose!
Here are two poems by Bob Holman. You are asked to choose between them. Much depends on your choice. For it has been said that there are two kinds of people in the world,…
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Creativity Rules: Constraints and Freedoms, Part Deux [by Amy Lemmon]
It was bound to happen: no sooner did I publish my last post than I realized that there was already a wonderful series of posts on this very blog by Tess Callahan about the power of…
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What is Love? Baby Don’t Hurt Me. [by Val Vinokur]
Last summer I launched a small press: Poets & Traitors. The first book was by Ahmad Al-Ashqar––Advances in Embroidery: Poems, with Translations form Mahmoud Darwish––and it set the template for the kinds of books…
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Translation in the Age of Customs and Border Protection [by Val Vinokur]
"It is the opposite which is good for us." –– Heraclitus of Ephesus I grew up on the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, in a country that was afraid that its citizens would…
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Val Vinokur, Guest Author January 8-12
This week we welcome Val Vinokur as our guest author. Val has been published in such venues as Common Knowledge, The Boston Review, McSweeney's, LitHub, The Russian Review, Zeek, The Massachusetts Review, Journal of Religion and Society, The Literary Review, and New American Writing.…
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Next Line, Please: Estimated Wait Time [by Virginia Valenzuela]
The voting goes on as we try to find the top ten poems of 2017! A lot happened last year and a lot continues to surface, but at the very least, our poems will…
