Bamboo – A Poem by Sumana Roy
Bamboo
We like things without bones.
We like things that dissolve inside our mouths
the way life seems to have dissolved into this world.
For death might not...
When Earth and Sky Intermingle : Science and Poetry – By Michael G. Smith
Poetry has never revealed its full face to anyone. Its beauty lies in the eyes of the beholder. It defies any attempt at a...
Poems by Karen Paul Holmes
Teaching Mozart in Stone Mountain Prison
I didn’t know what crimes they’d committed,
those twelve guys glaring at me.
No female had taught there before,
so I wore...
Poems by Nenad Trajković
Translated by Danijela Trajković
Marketing Fraud
it's good that there are commercials
about great new things
where your consciousness travels to
removed from the courage of the decision
somebody else...
Angel Sound, Mexico City – Poetry by Carmen Boullosa
Translated from the Spanish by Catherine Hammond
1.
I do not hear what I need to tell you.
The voice which strikes its spark from words, the...
Poems by Gili Haimovich
Like an Apology
Though my hands are beaten
Their ability to feel hasn’t been damaged,
But has darkened the ability to be accurate,
As when drawing on paper.
Shefali
I...
Stuttered Budding in Six Poems – By George Angel
I write to my friend
who wears his indignation
like a paper hat
he thinks makes him
look ridiculous.
He says,
"Who am I to ask
others to listen to me?"
But...
Poems by Michael Angel Martin
Cholina
When my mother dies
I learn I never knew her.
But she told me two stories,
two girlhood miracles.
At ten she saves her family
from a crocodile stalking
in...
3 Poems – By Latha Ramakrishnan
O1.
Time on a Different Plane
Almost exactly at the moment when I thought
of the sentence
that poets have a different time-zone
my wrist-watch stopped showing the correct...
Poems by Luke Hankins
In Luke's poems, the words move across the page creating a visual, visceral parallel to the syntactical rhythm of the text. The eye moves...
