Robert Creeley (1926–2005) was a poet born in Arlington, Massachusetts. He grew up in Acton. At the age of two, he lost his left eye. In his later years he was an advocate of, and a mentor to, many younger poets, as well as to others outside of the poetry world. Kore… (συνέχεια…)
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Robert Bly (1926-2021) was a poet, essayist, and activist from Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota. The Buried Train Tell me about the train that people say got buried By the avalanche—was it snow? It was In Colorado, and no one saw it happen. There was smoke from the engine curling up Lightly through fir… (συνέχεια…)
Russell Edson (1935-2014) was a poet, novelist, and illustrator from Connecticut. The Floor The floor is something we must fight against. Whilst seemingly mere platform for the human stance, it is that place that men fall to. I am not dizzy. I stand as a tower, a lighthouse; the pale ray of my… (συνέχεια…)
William Bronk (1918-1999) was a poet from Fort Edward, New York. For his book, Life Supports (1981), he won the National Book Award for Poetry. The Smile on the Face of a Kouros This boy, of course, was dead, whatever that might mean. And nobly dead. I think we should feel he was nobly… (συνέχεια…)
Denise Duhamel (b. 1961) is a poet from Woonsocket, Rhode Island. She received a BFA degree from Emerson College and an MFA degree from Sarah Lawrence College. Yes According to Culture Shock: A Guide to Customs and Etiquette of Filipinos, when my husband says yes, he could also mean one of the following: a.) I… (συνέχεια…)
Jack Prelutsky (b. 1940) is a children’s poet from Brooklyn, New York. Last Night I Dreamed of Chickens Last night I dreamed of chickens, there were chickens everywhere, they were standing on my stomach, they were nesting in my hair, they were pecking at my pillow, they were hopping on my head, they were… (συνέχεια…)
Linda Pastan (b. 1932) was raised in New York City but has lived for most of her life in Potomac, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, DC. She has published 15 books of poetry and a number of essays. A New Poet Finding a new poet is like finding a new wildflower out in… (συνέχεια…)
Edward Dorn (1929-1999) was a poet and teacher from Villa Grove, Illinois. He grew up in rural poverty during the Great Depression. He is often associated with the Black Mountain poets. Heart of Copper The Candidate, answering a question about El Salvador, generalized by saying he thought we should support human rights everywhere they… (συνέχεια…)
Carolyn Kizer (1925–2014) was an American poet from Spokane, Washington. Her works reached into mythology, politics, and feminism. She won the Pulitzer Prize in 1985. The Ungrateful Garden Midas watched the golden crust That formed over his steaming sores, Hugged his agues, loved his lust, But damned to hell the out-of-doors Where blazing motes… (συνέχεια…)
W. S. Merwin (1927–2019) was an American poet from New York City. He wrote more than fifty books of poetry and prose, and produced many works in translation. Beggars and Kings In the evening all the hours that weren’t used are emptied out and the beggars are waiting to gather them up to open… (συνέχεια…)
Wendell Berry (b. 1934) is a poet from Newcastle, Kentucky. He continues to farm the land along the Kentucky River that his family has worked for two centuries. Woods I part the out thrusting branches and come in beneath the blessed and the blessing trees. Though I am silent there is singing around me…. (συνέχεια…)
Alan Dugan (1923-2003) was a poet from New York City. He wrote with bemused sarcasm about mundane topics, infusing them with irony. How We Heard the Name The river brought down dead horses, dead men and military debris, indicative of war or official acts upstream, but it went by, it all goes by, that… (συνέχεια…)
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell (1917-1977) grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at Harvard University and Kenyon College. Child’s Song My cheap toy lamp gives little light all night, all night, when my muscles cramp. Sometimes I touch your hand across my cot, and our fingers knot, but there’s no hand to… (συνέχεια…)
2 Σεπ 2022
فاطمه شمس Fatemeh Shams
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναFatemeh Shams is a contemporary Iranian poet, literary scholar and translator, currently based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and teaching Persian literature at the University of Pennsylvania. Handwriting You can tell from my uneven hand from the hunched back of my “Shin” from the crooked lines of my “Noon” I’m under the lash of forgetting my native… (συνέχεια…)
Bes Bajraktarević is a Bosnian Ph.D. student in comparative literature at Harvard University. Her research focuses on the intersections of law, philosophy, and the humanities, as well as literary theory and criticism. Three Citizens, a Flower Leaves in a pond in an almost-rose, a thirty-year-old defacement by a mortar shell explosion at my feet…. (συνέχεια…)
Casting Elliott in E.T. Η ακρόαση για το ρόλο του Elliott στον Εξωγήινο Ο ηθοποιός Henry Thomas (γεν. 1971) σε μικρή ηλικία περνά από ακρόαση για να πάρει το ρόλο του Elliott στην ταινία E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Ο Εξωγήινος). Film producer and director Steven Spielberg can be heard off camera saying, “Okay, kid, you… (συνέχεια…)
Tony Sanders (1957–2015) was a poet from New York City. He earned his BA from Yale University, MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and PhD from the University of Houston. After Friendship These days there’s not much in the fridge to pick on except take-out spicy bean curd and a block of rice in… (συνέχεια…)
Poet, critic, and professor James Longenbach (1959–2022) wrote primarily on modernist and contemporary poetry. Second Life Accompanied To the Campi Flegrei By a shadow, She listened to voices rise From the darkness, Then recede. Instruments Sustained them. When one had finished Others played. False proportions Sung boldly. Rain on the roof tiles. O selve, o… (συνέχεια…)
Gabriel Dunsmith is an Appalachian writer and musician based in Reykjavík, Iceland. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa (είναι η παλαιότερη ένωση αριστούχων) from Vassar College. The Appalachian Mountains, often called the Appalachians, are a system of mountains (i.e. a group of mountain ranges) in eastern North America. Appalachia is a cultural region. It typically refers… (συνέχεια…)
L. Renée is a poet and nonfiction writer, living in Harrisonburg, Virginia. She enjoys research, exploring archives, and collecting oral histories to inform her work. Mend My Mama had the gift of hand sewing—one perfect stitch after another perfect stitch, eyeballing the precise length of thread needed to repair what had ripped a gaping… (συνέχεια…)
