Poems by Isidoros Karderinis
The reader
I read with pleasure the books
That writhe at my touch
Their pages full of lines
That mirror their soul.
In them I found the golden light.
A...
Poems by Gavin Bourke
The Lighthouse, On the Green
Thomas Taylor’s, phenomenal gift,
to his father, a mock lighthouse,
not facing, seas, or oceans, but
endless, fertile, green fields,
hunts, races, grazing sheep
and...
Malayalam Poetry : N. Prabhakaran’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 2
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
Three Poems By Cameron Morse
Self-Portrait with Saint Augustine
Splintered toenail, bug
bitten navel, fungus
in the crevasse, sprout
of warts on the heel of hand
and foot. The list grows
with age. The...
Poems by Ninko Kirilov
Something
I want to tear the sky
with someone's eyelashes,
to fill the puddles
and drink them dry,
eat mud with virgin blossoms,
ferment the new alchemy
of the skill of...
Poems by Gary Beck
Urban Sight
The creaky, old homeless woman,
ravaged by unmet demands
pulls her cart of broken dreams
as she trudges unkind streets
that do not welcome outcasts,
concrete without compassion
for...
The Anti-Poetry of Salvador Villanueva
By Gustavo Rivera
There is a sliver of truth when Josefina Rivera de Álvarez, in her book Literatura Puertorriquena: Su proceso en el tiempo (Puerto Rican...
Malayalam Poetry : Kalpatta Narayanan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation – 3
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on view...
Poems by Madison Yoest
A Question, to the Jaw Bones I Know Well
Will my wisdom teeth
fold in
on themselves,
like an incorrectly melting candle, if I admit
to feeling unwise?
Will they...
Malayalam Poetry : Bindu Krishnan’s Poems
Malayalam Poetry in Translation Series – 12
Translated by Aditya Shankar
(Translator’s Note: The finest of contemporary Malayalam poetry represents the latest poetic sensibility that is on...