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Winter arrives: three poems by Jane Kenyon
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995, Michigan/New Hampshire) The Cold . I don’t know why it made me happy to see the pond ice over in a day, turning first hazy, then white. Or why I was glad when the thermometre...
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Jane Kenyon: poemas íntimos sobre un esposo
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995, poeta/traductor estadounidense) . . . The First Eight Days of the Beard . 1. A page of exclamation points 2. A class of cadets at attention 3. A school of eels 4. Standing...
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Jane Kenyon: Poemas sobre el Invierno
Jane Kenyon (1947-1995) Poemas sobre el Invierno / Poems about Winter . . . Indolencia durante un invierno temprano . Llega una carta de unos amigos – ¡Déjenlos divorciarse, todos, pues casarse de...
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Pro-Sex Poems of Love and Desire: the exquisite verse of Constantine P. Cavafy
C.P. Cavafy (Greek poet from Alexandria, Egypt: 1863-1933) Body, Remember . Body, remember not only how much you were loved, not only the beds you lay on, but also those desires that glowed openly in...
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Pro-Sex Poems of Love and Desire: Brainard, Shepherd, Smith, Liu and Teare
Joe Brainard (Arkansas/Oklahoma/New York City, 1942-1994) Sex (written in 1969) . I like sex best when it’s fast and fun. Or slow and beautiful. Beautiful, of course can be fun too. And fun,...
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Pro-Sex Poems of Love and Desire: Herrick and St.Vincent Millay
Edna St.Vincent Millay_1892-1950 Robert Herrick (1591-1674) Love Lightly Pleased . Let fair or foul my mistress be, Or low, or tall, she pleaseth me; Or let her walk, or stand, or sit, The posture...
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Pro-Sex Poems of Love and Desire: Lenore, Nikki, Olga, Maxine
Excerpts from Antoinette May’s 1967 interview with Lenore Kandel in Les Gals magazine, Summer 1967 issue, volume 2, number 3: Late last year (1966) Lenore and her poetic description of the love act...
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Claude McKay: The Flame Heart
Claude McKay (Jamaica/U.S.A., 1889-1948) The Flame Heart . SO much have I forgotten in ten years, So much in ten brief years! I have forgot What time the purple apples come to juice, And what month...
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Jane Kenyon: Al solsticio de invierno / At the winter solstice
Jane Kenyon Al solsticio de invierno . Los pinos parecen negros en la media-luz del alba. Quietud… Mientras dormíamos, una pulgada de nieve simplificó el campo. Hoy, entre todos los días, el sol no...
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Edna St.Vincent Millay: Para Jesús – En Su Cumpleaños / To Jesus, On His...
Salmos 119: 105: Lámpara es a mis pies tu palabra, y lumbrera a mi camino. Pintura por Wayne Forte_A Lamp Unto My Feet copyright 2007 by Wayne Forte Edna St.Vincent Millay (1892-1950) To Jesus, On His...
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Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus
Jefferson Bethke Why I Hate Religion But Love Jesus . What if I told you: Jesus came to abolish religion? What if I told you: getting you to vote Republican really wasn’t his mission? Because...
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Poema de un recuerdo especial navideño / A special “Christmas memory” poem…
Rita Bouvier (1950, Sakitawak, Saskatchewan, Canadá) A veces me percato llorando – al momento más raro… . A veces me percato llorando – al momento más raro… . Una voz inesperada – mon oncle André / de...
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Tanya Tagaq: Nunavut’s radical Inuk throat-singer
. . . Inuk artist and poet Alootook Ipellie (Iqaluit, Baffin Island, 1951-2007) might’ve thrilled to the vocal sounds – both traditional and progressive/highly original – of contemporary...
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Manuel Iris: poemas inspirados por Jazz (Davis y Monk) – con Gabriel Okara
Manuel Iris (México, nacido 1983, poeta yucateco / ganador del Premio Nacional de Poesía, Mérida, 2009) [ de su poemario Overnight Medley (ARC Edições, Brasil, 2014) ] Escrito en Oquedad I fall in...
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Black History Month: Love Poems for the Belovéd; for God; for a Child
Eric Merton Roach (1915-1974, Trinidad and Tobago) A Lover Speaks (1948) . Climb up a rainbow’s arch And be arrayed in all that loveliness; Be gilded as a sunset cloud Or take the moon’s soft...
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Great Women Jazz Instrumentalists + “Jazz” poems by Langston Hughes and Jayne...
Mary Lou Williams: jazz pianist, composer, arranger_1910 to 1981 Langston Hughes (1902-1967) Juke Box Love Song . I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you, Take the neon lights and make a...
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Esther Phillips: “How does the heart recover from the lives we’ve met and...
Esther Phillips (Barbados, born 1950) My Brother . A little boy ran down the road with a roller, his magic metal wand striking mirrored memories of you, my brother. . How often did your bare feet...
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Tanya Shirley, poeta jamaicana: dos poemas “confidenciales”
Tanya Shirley (poeta jamaicana) Cáncer (parte 1) . Es algo duro, mirar el hedor en su cara cuando sabemos que él no pertenece en la caverna de una mujer que crió rosas y que trajo un árbol de mango...
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Kendel Hippolyte: Snow as metaphor…
Kendel Hippolyte Snow . It’s snowing in our land. The warmth evaporates, the cold settles on hill and house, on friends we knew, on families. A fallout from a cold war covers them and they diminish,...
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Kendel Hippolyte: Blues Rizado y Blues Cuerdo
Kendel Hippolyte (poeta de Santa Lucía, Caribe, nacido 1952) Blues Rizado* . en la ciudad aquí afuera, me estoy ahogando en mi rarezas, de un esfuerzo por quedarme auténtico… la cabeza flotante, el...
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