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Violeta Orozco on the US presidential election, leaving Mexico, and her connection to deep time.
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- ArticleBy Jared Marcel Pollen
On Context Collapse, Ryan Ruby’s vertiginous secret history of poetry.
- ArticleBy Alexander Wells
The German poet Lutz Seiler has spent his career making song from the ruins of history.
- PoemBy Victoria Adukwei Bulley& even when we said we were alone there was [ ] noise on the radio & there was [ ] noise in the car & there was [ ] noise all over the...
- ArticleBy Declan Ryan
W.H. Auden's conflicted love of England is front and center in The Island.
- AudioPoetry Off the ShelfTyler Mills on the truth, how to love a cockroach, and her grandfather's silence about the bomb.
- PoemBy Solmaz SharifStudies suggest How may I help you officer? is the single most disarming thing to say and not What's…
- PoemBy Rita Dovelate, in aqua and ermine, gardenias
scaling her left sleeve in a spasm of scent,
her gloves white, her… - PoemBy Tilsa OttaUn club nocturno no hace un verano
Mas creo en el perreo
Eterno recreo
En la agitación de la masa crítica… - PoemBy Tilsa OttaTranslated By Farid MatukA nightclub doesn’t make a summer
I believe more in perreo
Play everlasting
In the agitation of a critical… - PoemBy Maya KhoslaWater minus air becomes wound.
Her blowhole, bursts of breathing,
trapped in an endless curtain of netting… - PoemBy William Butler YeatsThe light of evening, Lissadell,
Great windows open to the south,
Two girls in silk kimonos, both
Beautiful, one a gazelle.
But a raving autumn shears
Blossom from the summer's wreath;
The older is condemned to death,
Pardoned, drags out lonely years
Conspiring among the ignorant.
I know not... - PoemBy William Butler YeatsHow can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics,
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has both read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war... - PoemBy Remica Bingham-Rishera man is killed in Mobile, Alabama. It is 1981, nearest what some will call the last lynching in America…
- ArticleBy Valerie Mejer Caso
- ArticleBy Remica Bingham-RisherWhat do we uncover when we try to salvage history?
- PoemBy Thomas Henry SmithE Ihowā Atua,
O ngā iwi mātou rā,
Āta whakarangona;
Me aroha noa.
Kia hua ko te pai;
Kia tau tō atawhai;
Manaakitia… - PoemBy Thomas BrackenGod of Nations at Thy feet,
In the bonds of love we meet,
Hear our voices, we entreat,
God defend our free… - ArticleBy L. Renée
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