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C Рождеством – C новым годом! Борис Пастернак стихи / Two poems for Russian...
Soviet-era Christmas greeting card from 1960 Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) “Snow is falling” . Snow is falling, snow is falling. Geranium flowers reach for the blizzard’s small white stars past the...
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Poema para Epifanía: “El Viaje de los Reyes Magos” / Poem for Epiphany: “The...
ZP_Ilustración por Edward McKnight Stauffer de la edición 1927 del poema_Edward McKnight Stauffer’s illustration for the original 1927 edition of Eliot’s poem Thomas Stearns Eliot (T.S.Eliot)...
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Rubén Darío: Los Tres Reyes Magos / The Three Wise Kings
Rubén Darío (Nicaragua, 1867-1916) Los Tres Reyes Magos . Yo soy Gaspar. Aquí traigo el incienso. Vengo a decir: La vida es pura y bella. Existe Dios. El amor es inmenso. ¡Todo lo sé por la divina...
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Elyas Mulu Kiros: “Bonito y Sabroso”, “Winter Blues” and “Genuine Street”
Elyas Mulu Kiros “I just want to say…” (Winter Blues) . “I am by the window: Observing rapid snowflakes falling, On the concrete Outside this cold apartment, Without sticking. . I just want to say...
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Alexander Best: Once Haikus: “Deshielo en Enero” / Eleven Haiku: “Mid-Winter...
Alexander Best Once Haikus: “Deshielo en Enero” / Eleven Haiku: “Mid-Winter Thaw” . - 22 Pues + 7 grados Días bipolares . - 22 Then suddenly it’s + 7 Winter mood swing . ¡Odio el enero cuándo me...
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Maya Angelou: “A pesar de todo – me levanto” / “Still I Rise”
Maya Angelou (Marguerite Ann Johnson) (St. Louis, Missouri, 1928- ) “A pesar de todo – me levanto” . Podrás inscribirme en la historia Con tus mentiras amargas y retorcidas, Podrás arrastrarme en la...
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Saeed Jones: Disposición de Sueño / Claro, lo veía venir – que yo estaba...
Saeed Jones Disposición de Sueño . I He decidido permitirte quedar aquí – bajo nuestra cama, en el suelo, no el espacio entre el colchón y el armazón metálico. Por favor – saca tu mano debajo de mi...
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Claude McKay: “The Snow Fairy”
Claude McKay (1889-1948) “The Snow Fairy” . I Throughout the afternoon I watched them there, Snow-fairies falling, falling from the sky, Whirling fantastic in the misty air, Contending fierce for...
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Lucille Clifton: “Oh Dios bufonesco” y “El martes” / “Oh antic God” and...
ZP_Retrato de Lucille Clifton por Summer Pierre_Oh, reza que lo que queremos vale correr el riesgo…Reza que lo que estamos corriendo hacia…es lo que queremos. Lucille Clifton (poeta/educadora...
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Etheridge Knight: 9 “Senryu”
Etheridge Knight (Corinth, Mississippi, USA, 1931-1991) . 1 Eastern guard tower glints in sunset; convicts rest like lizards on rocks. . 2 The piano man is stingy, at 3 a.m. his songs drop like plum....
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Etheridge Knight: “My Life, the quality of which…”
Lenox Avenue and 116th Street in Harlem_1960s Etheridge Knight (Corinth, Mississippi, USA, 1931-1991) “My Life, the quality of which…” . My Life, the quality of which, from the moment my father grunted...
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Dany Laferrière: “Fire is nothing next to Ice…”
Dany Laferrière (Windsor Klébert Laferrière) (né 1953, à Petit Goâve, Haïti, vivant à Montréal, Canada) Extraits de Chronique de la dérive douce / Excerpts from Chronicle of the Sweet Year Adrift...
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Gwendolyn Brooks: “Mis sueños, mis trabajos, tendrán que esperar hasta mi...
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) “La balada-soneto” . Oh madre, madre, ¿dónde está la felicidad? Se llevaron a mi alto amante a la guerra. Me dejaron lamentándome. No puedo saber de qué me sirve la taza...
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Josephine Heard: “The Advance of Education”
Josephine Delphine Henderson Heard (1861-1921) “The Advance of Education” . What means this host advancing, With such melodious strain: These men on steeds a prancing, This mighty marshaled train. ....
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Henrietta Cordelia Ray: Odes to Toussaint L’Ouverture and Paul Laurence Dunbar
Henrietta Cordelia Ray (1852?-1916) “Toussaint L’Ouverture” (from: Champions of Freedom, published 1910) . To those fair isles where crimson sunsets burn, We send a backward glance to gaze on thee,...
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Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson: “The Praline Woman”
Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson(1875-1935) “The Praline Woman” (from: The Goodness of St. Rocque and Other Short Stories, published in 1899) [ On title page: “To my best comrade – My husband [Paul Laurence...
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“Make sparks”: an inspirational poem
“Make sparks”: an inspirational poem . Best, Carrie; Desmond, Viola; Rosa Parks. Two at The Movies; One on The Bus; Three for Justice. . Step upon step, Day after day, Choice by choice. And what if...
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“Lift Every Voice and Sing” & Augusta Savage’s “The Harp”
The Harp by Augusta Savage, displayed at the 1939 World’s Fair in New York City “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is a song first written as a poem in 1899 by James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938). It was...
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Sterling Allen Brown: “She jes’ gits hold of us dataway”
The family pictured here was part of The Great Migration: African-Americans on the move from the rural South up or over to towns and cities of the North and MidWest. They wished to escape that Life of...
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Frank Marshall Davis: “Cuatro Ojeadas de Noche” y “Auto-Retrato” / “Four...
Frank Marshall Davis (1905-1987) “Cuatro Ojeadas de Noche” . I . Ansiosamente como una mujer que se apura por su amante La Noche llega en el cuarto del mundo y se extiende, tierna y satisfecha contra...
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