Photo: Stefan SchweihoferI Scatter Bread Crumbs to the SparrowsFrom my palms spills the joy of sparrows.I call them to the crumbs, Come quickly! and Who will be first?Their frozen bills warm,…
Poetry
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Photo: Kris Williams/FlickrArchipelagoThe enigma is some other thing – no gods live here Just men and the sea, immovable inheritance. UndeniableBy dowry I received you at birth and I recognize… -
Photo: Vincent Brassinne (Flickr.com/vainsang)Sand WomanA woman was lifted from the sand. She was perfectly intact, not even a split hair.When he left they say she didn’t eat or sleep. She didn’t di… -
Editorial note: The Swabian versions of the following poems are read by the author. The English versions are read by Tegan White-Nesbitt.Abwesenheitsnotiz Aushäusig daheim,… -
Photo: Public Domain/PixabayUntitledThe wildflowers don’t bloom on command nor can their seeds be sown rebellious winds whirl at dawn winnowing seeds toward the ossuaries of the fields in… -
Photo by Fiona Baxter/FlickriHe once sold a portion of himself to a fish packing plant, slipped in the crates of the headless and dressed when all eyes were bludge… -
Jeremy Miranda, Salt Marsh, 2014, acrylic on panel. Courtesy of the artist.How Much of Yourself Remains Within the Walls of a Home?after Jeremy Miranda’s Salt Marsh (2014)… -
Photo by Ryan GodfreyX Days After the Amnesia EpidemicWe set out on this road knowing we would discover nothing amazing. We didn’t expect to find a new route to Mercury, we didn’t imagine we would s… -
Antoni Tàpies, Porta metàl·lica i violí, 1956, 200 x 150 x 13 cm.Back then I learned that the painter’sgesture contains both the movement of the planetand the blade of grass on the mountain.I… -
Egon Schiele, Portrait of Wally Neuzil, 1912, oil on wood (32 x 39.8 cm). © 2015 Leopold Museum, Wien, Austria. www.leopoldmuseum.org/en/leopoldcollection/masterpieces/33On VisionWal… -
Photo by Andrew Toskin Still Life with Toy Gunfor Tamir Rice and John Crawford IIIafter the after-party empties both of its fists the seven of us gather like a murderof crows… -
Adam and Eve,by Gail Caulfield, Villa Montalvo (Italy)Genesis 2: 18–22 After a while, the glitter began to fade, the way a bright star, regarded full-on,… -
Tahel Frosh. Photo by Alon Poratהרי ספרדאֲנִי כּוֹתֶבֶת אֶת מַה שֶּׁלֹּא יִתָּכֵן כִּי יֵשׁ מִי שֶׁמְּדַבְּרִים עַל כֶּסֶף בְּאִינְטִימִיוּת מִי שֶׁמַּעֲבִירִים בִּזְרָמִים חוּשָׁנִיִּים כֶּסֶף שֶׁלְּ… -
Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography All my being is a dark verse that repeats you to the dawn of unfading flowering and growth. I conjured you in my poem with a sigh and grafted you to water, fire,… -
Photo by ~dgies/FlickrBilingual recordings by the author and Lyn Coffin9Death is when the heart does not beat and the clock beats. Love is when the heart beats and the clock… -
[Click here to read the lyrics in Farsi.] The whole of my being is a dark verse of Scripture which in its repeated recitations will take you away to the dawn of eternal buddings and bloomings.I…
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Misrak Terefe (far right) with fellow Ethiopian performance poets.This says the meaning of country is sitting in the balance.In order to say, to be able to see,the balance, the lead… -
For a group of art performances in July 2013 called Wax and Gold organized by the Netsa Art Village, visual artist Mulugeta Gebrekidan presented “Invading Samsung Square” to protest the corpo… -
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Photo by Brent Pearson/FlickrNegative SpaceII was born on a Tuesday in April.I didn’t cry. Not because I was stunned. I wasn’t even mad.I was the lucky egg, trained for gratitudeinside the belly for n… -
Photo: Kristina Sheppard/FlickrA Young Horse I’ve never figured out what world I live in.I rode on a horse as young and as happy as I.When he galloped I could feel his heartbeatAgainst my thighsA… -
Photo by Alberto VarelaBio How unlike a dead fish a live fish is – Maxine Hong KingstonKiedy byłam rybąKosmos jak zawsz… -
Todd Stewart, “Fence Line, Tule Lake Relocation Center, 2001,” from Placing Memory: A Photographic Exploration of Japanese American Internment (University of Oklahoma Press, 2008).Eating Nood… -
The author reading at the Gogol House Museum in Moscow, February 2014. Photo © Anna Dikareva.Listen to videotaped recordings of both Russian originals in the following clip (4:00-10:05).… -
Swallows. Photo by Kenneth Cole Schneider/FlickrThe SwallowsG. Mend-Ooyo Returning from afar, swallows in flocksEmbrace the tales of the gentle, tranquil steppe.The waters of ete…