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“tight” [by Raven Jackson]
of course I feel like a childinviting him to stepcloser: this whiteman full of breasts:this bulge peekingthrough fingers–pockets of mouth. i throat himand he undressesmy scars. the doorway tall.hinged with veins of metaland the…
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“Why We Read: Canon to the Right of Me …” by Katha Pollitt
(Ed note: I first read this essay in 1991, when it appeared in The Nation. This essay is as relevant as ever and I'm grateful that Katha has given us permission to post it…
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HOW THE DARK GETS OUT by Michael Lally
How does the dark get out?Thelonious Monk said It’sAlways night or we wouldn’tNeed light. Saint John of TheCross wrote The Dark NightOf The Soul, which I alwaysUsed to justify my researchInto darkness with the…
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Lorenzo García Vega’s Homage to Juan Sánchez Peláez [by Guillermo Parra]
(Juan Sánchez Peláez at his home in Caracas in 1979, by Vasco Szinetar) One of the reasons I became a translator of Venezuelan literature into English is because I discovered the poetry of…
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The DISQUIET PRIZE: Deadline February 15
DISQUIET’s annual contest seeks the best in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. The winner in each genre will be published: the fiction winner in Guernica; the nonfiction winner in Ninthletter.com; and the poetry winner in…
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Intervene: Dolores Dorantes and Rodrigo Flores Sánchez [by Guillermo Parra]
DD and RFS read from Intervenir in Mexico City, 21 November 2009. Click on image for video (in Spanish). In the fall of 2014, the Mexican poets Dolores Dorantes (Córdoba, Veracruz, 1973) and Rodrigo…
