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…)
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Poet, journalist and travel writer Hugo Williams was born in 1942 in Windsor and grew up in Sussex. Siren Song I phone from time to time, to see if she’s changed the music on her answerphone. ‘Tell me in two words,’ goes the recording, ‘what you were going to tell in a thousand.’… (συνέχεια…)
Spike Milligan (1918-2002) was a British-Irish actor, comedian, writer, musician, poet, and playwright, born in Ahmednagar, British Colonial India. The Lion If you’re attacked by a Lion Find fresh underpants to try on Lay on the ground quite still Pretend you are very ill Keep like that day after day Perhaps the lion… (συνέχεια…)
Ian Emberson (1936–2013) was a poet from Hove, Sussex, proud to have been christened by the poet Andrew Young. After moving around quite a bit, he spent his life in the small town of Todmorden, West Yorkshire. Lingering by the Doorway of the Woods I was picking blackberries when I thought of the… (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…)
Adam Wolfond is a non-speaking autistic artist, poet, and university lecturer. Poetry is part of his body. “It is nature to me,” he says through a speech-generating device, an iPad text-to-speech application. “I think that non-speakers like me dance with language.” His work has been featured in multimedia exhibitions, documentary films, academic journals, and philosophical… (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…)
1 Σεπ 2022
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Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναBes 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…)
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…)
Laura Theis writes poetry, songs, and fiction in her second language. She is an award-winning musician and writer from Ottobrunn, Germany. She now lives in Oxford, England. Ameisenverteilungsmaschine my disapproving mother tells me nobody wants to read poems about ant distribution machines in fact nobody wants to read poems at all they are unnecessary… (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…)
Bai Juyi (772-864) was a leading poet of the Tang dynasty. He was also the governor of several provinces. The Song of the Willow Branches In the spring wind this tree has thousand myriad branches tender gold shoots softer than silk In this wild unpeopled field who does this willow belong to? —Translated by… (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…)
Kalli Dakos (b. 1950) is a Canadian children’s poet and teacher from Ottawa, Ontario. A Teacher’s Lament Don’t tell me the cat ate your math sheet, And your spelling words went down the drain, And you couldn’t decipher your homework, Because it was soaked in the rain. Don’t tell me you slaved for hours… (συνέχεια…)
26 Αυγ 2022
Kathleen Tankersley Young
Συντάκτης: Κων/νος Βούλγαρης | Κάτω από: Εκπαίδευση στον 21ο αιώναPoet and editor Kathleen Tankersley Young (1902–1933) was born in rural West Texas. Question for Your Question For E.B. The leaf is stripped from the tree, Crisp gold at the edges With brown veins, now powerless Against the frightening wind. We took from the dark the terrible speeches, Syllables into sentences, The steep sea… (συνέχεια…)
Richard Aldington (1892-1962) was a writer and poet from Portsmouth, England. He was an early associate of the Imagist movement. To a Greek Marble Πότνια, πότνια, White grave goddess, Pity my sadness, O silence of Paros. I am not of these about thy feet, These garments and decorum; I am thy brother, Thy lover… (συνέχεια…)
