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Mildred K. Barya compares Beverley Nambozo’s “At the graveyard” with Sylvia...
ZP Guest Editor Mildred K. Barya: What Beverley Nambozo (Uganda) and Sylvia Plath (USA) have in common My first poet is Beverley Nambozo, and the poem I’m focusing on is “At the graveyard.” Beverley...
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From Lagos with Love: two gay poets
ZP_Pastor Macaulay leading a House of Rainbow gathering of conversation and loving prayer . Rowland Jide Macaulay (born 1966) is an openly gay Nigerian poet and pastor who – as of tomorrow (June 30th...
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Loving the Ladies: the poems of Pat Parker
ZP_Pat Parker in 1989_photograph © Robert Giard Pat Parker “Sunshine” . If it were possible to place you in my brain to let you roam around in and out my thought waves you would never have to ask why...
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Essex Hemphill: “We keep treasure any king would count as dear”: Poems of...
ZP_portrait by Rotimi Fani-Kayode_Dennis Carney and Essex Hemphill in Brixton, London, 1988. Hemphill is holding Carney and kissing the back of his neck. . Essex Hemphill (1957-1995) From: Ceremonies...
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“Los Tres Arbolitos” de Clovis S. Palmer y “Árboles” de Joyce Kilmer
Clovis S. Palmer “Los Tres Arbolitos” . Es redondo el mundo que nadie no ve, y hay árboles de todas necesidades. Algunos puedan ser grandes – otros, pequeños – o, quizás, como muñequitos. Puedan...
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Poemas japoneses – de guerra, del honor, de la ternura – traducidos por Nuna...
ZP_Samurai writing a poem on a flowering cherry-tree trunk by Ogata Gekko, 1859-1920_ print courtesy of ogatagekkodotnet . Ouchi Yoshitaka (a “daimyo” or feudal lord / un “daimyo” o soberano feudal,...
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Jane Kenyon: “Laissons venir le soir” / “Let Evening Come”
ZP_Garçonnet avec une binette_La Zambie_Little boy with hoe_Zambia_photograph © Boldt . Jane Kenyon(1947-1995) “Laissons venir le soir” . Laissez la lumière de fin de journée briller à travers les...
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Alan Clark: “La Lengua” y “Dentro de Ti”
ZP_La Lengua_pintura de Alan Clark . La Lengua . Estoy “viviendo” tu leyenda sobre mi lengua (es ésta la tierra santa en que vagaremos…) Contigo…degustas como las palabras que me vienen, esta lengua...
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Robert Gurney: “Horneritos” / “Ovenbirds”
ZP_Crested Hornero in Argentina_Furnarius cristatus en Argentina_foto por Nick Athanas Robert Gurney “Horneritos” . Recibí un mail desde la Patagonia acerca de unos pájaros. . Tienen el...
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Toronto flora of “high summer”: The Sunflower
Sunflower – dawn, high noon or dusk hour – Why – for me – do you have such power? You: my glad grown-up face when I’m open to joy, not anger’s toy; when I’m frank with feeling, not secretly reeling....
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Toronto flora of “high summer”: The Lily
Lily – my childhood flower. I learned to walk among your stalks. And your ancient sophistication is part of me now; your beauty beholds me / I behold you, and The World is good glimpsed from your...
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Alicia Claudia González Maveroff: “The Storyteller in The Zócalo” / “El...
. Alicia Claudia González Maveroff “The Storyteller in The Zócalo” . Earlier today in the Square there was a storyteller enchanting people with his words – everyone who was in and around that patch of...
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Andre Bagoo beats Pan: Five Caribbean Poets inspired by T&T’s unique Drum
Afropan, Toronto’s longest-running steel orchestra, was founded in 1973. They have won the “Panorama”/Pan Alive competition more than two dozen times over the years. Currently under the leadership of...
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Atwood, Kiguli, Carver: Mildred K. Barya compares three poems about photographs
ZP_Mamie Estelle Fearing Scurlock with bouquet_1910_photographer Addison Scurlock . ZP Guest Editor Mildred K. Barya: Three poets / Three photographs . In this piece I’m comparing and contrasting three...
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Gregory Porter: “Somos pintados sobre un lienzo ” / “Painted on canvases”
ZP_Romare Bearden (1911-1988)_Morning of the Rooster_1980 . Gregory Porter (Cantante/compositor de jazz, nacido en 1971, EE.UU.) “Somos pintados sobre un lienzo ” . Somos como niños Somos pintados...
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Tricia Postle: Poema (“ya está bien – bastante”) / Poem (“that’s enough of...
En el patio del fondo los girasoles se inclinan hacia adelante Tarde de noche, de la puerta, están llamados por sus nombres los gatos, y yo, jadeante, deduzco que la parcela vallada está desocupada,...
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艾未未 + 艾青 : Ai Weiwei + Ai Qing: “Without movement there is no Life…We should...
The retrospective exhibition Ai Weiwei: According to What? opens today at the Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, Canada. Ai Weiwei (born 1957) is China’s most famous – or infamous – depending on your...
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María Elena Walsh: “Como la cigarra” / “Like the Cicada”
Editor’s note: Six weeks ago, here in Toronto, we heard the voices of the first cicadas of the summer of 2013… Their distinctive sound seemed to have gone silent after a week of dreamy buzzing in the...
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“Quien nace chicharra, muere cantando.”: ¡Las cigarras torontonienses hacen...
ZP_Cicada from Borneo_© photographer Alex Hyde . Después de un mutismo de seis semanas – tiempo fresco en vez del calor típico del verano – empieza de nuevo “la música de cámara de los timbales” – con...
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Irene Rutherford McLeod: “Perro solitário” / “Lone Dog”
ZP_Perro solitário_Las Playitas_Cuatro Ciénegas_Coahuila_México_fotógrafo Hector Garza . Irene Rutherford McLeod (1891-1968) “Perro solitário” . Soy un perro magro, un perro agudo – salvaje y...
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