Who sleeps with me at night’s My secret, but if you must I’ll tell you: Fear sleeps with me –– Just fear, which suddenly Cradles me in the see-saw Of [...]
(Or, The Peculiarities of the Making of Cross-Cultural Literary History) What I’m here today to do is to make recommendations and to give advice. I know that what I’m doing is [...]
Why am I here? How did I get here? (Kaufman, 3) There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few [...]
The following document should be of great interest to all of us committed to freedom of expression. It is an announcement of the intention of 60 leading Vietnamese writers to [...]
[This essay is being published to commemorate the Notre Dame symposium. You can watch a live webcast here.] The first time I ever saw Robert, he was reading from [...]
Sponsored by China Scholarship Council, Prof. Liu Fuli went to the University of Alabama to study Hank Lazer’s poetry. She was a visiting scholar in the first half of the [...]
Los Angeles poet Wanda Coleman, born in 1946, died at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center on November 22, 2013. The day after my marriage to Howard, November 23, 2013, I read in [...]
I hear democracy weep, on election day. The streets are filled with brokered promise, on election day. The miscreant’s vote the same as saint’s, on election day. The dead unleash [...]
Seven poems from Bonvicino's forthcoming collection Estado Critico [Critical Condition] translated by Odile Cisneros Régis Bonvicino is our 21st flâneur, the Baudelairian lyric poet in the age of terminal capitalism, whose stark [...]
Whiteness of memory lost. Feeling orderly I enter a bus. A pomegranate has three hundred and sixty five seeds, Hasmik said. A quiet inset of pane souled into building. Mortuary [...]