Poetry

Alicia Ostriker “A Walker in the City” “Coda: Into the Street” Andy Clausen “Insurgency” A Walker in the City What you see is what you get, an inventory of garbage lying loose– the poor are always with us, but the rich lurk behind one-way glass in limousines and an entire class of attractive youth increasingly…

Baron Wormser “Carthage Gets Mail” “Carthage’s Diary” Francis Combes “Spain of Blood and Jasmine” (translated from French by Jack Hirschman) Carthage Gets Mail Citizens write letters to Carthage. Mostly they want a smiling, signed photograph. A husband or wife may leave, The IRS may be auditing them, The car may be broke But the President…

Poetry Poetry Section Contents Suheir Hammad, “a prayer band” Thomas Sayers Ellis, “Groovallegiance” Lorraine Healy, “Where They Were” Stephen Paul Miller, from “I’m Trying to Get My Phony  Baloney Ideas about Metamodernism into a Poem”   SUHEIR HAMMAD a prayer band every thing you ever paid for you ever worked on you ever received every…

My first encounter with the poetry of Andrey Gritsman occurred on a cheerless winter night in 2004. Gritsman was giving a poetry reading at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York City. The RCI had invited him to promote the Romanian translation of one of his recent poetry collections, In Transit (2004). The evening began…

CATCHER You are a catcher of the lights from your childhood in the apple orchard, a lone patrol with smokes in a tight skirt, reconnaissance detachment. In the afternoon, after the pill wears off your eyes are alert and out there all of them are waiting to be taken into custody, into account, to pay…

LOGOS EM: Who were your earliest poetic influences? AG: Well, certainly in Russian poetry Lermontov and Pushkin. I would say Vladimir Mayakovsky was very important during my early years, mainly because my father liked him a lot and read his poems to me aloud.  To a certain degree Yessenin.  In other words, these two giants…

Table of Contents JANINE POMMY VEGA Wartime Kitchen Mean Ol’ Badger Blues SIMIN BEHBAHANI It’s Time to Mow the Flowers ABBAS SAFFARI Saturday Night Dinner JANINE POMMY VEGA Wartime Kitchen I think of Yannis Ritsos’s women marching to the kitchen at the first sound of war I think of the bulk of Grandma in Jersey…

Three Poems by Andy Clausen and Bo Baba             A Million to One I felt the fire with no heat or burn I endured the unmanifested wound no doctor could diagnose no healing teacher no priest had a clue Sleep would not arrive a smile would have shattered my face a simple pleasure would have…

 Poetry Section Table of Contents ALLEN GINSBERG Open Letter (Sept. 30, 1972) ANNE WALDMAN Bury the Skull of a Yak From “The Protest Diaries” WANDA COLEMAN The War of Wars ELIOT KATZ Three Poems Poetry Section ALLEN GINSBERG Open Letter (Sept. 30, 1972) In this open letter from the Fall of 1972, Allen Ginsberg urged…

Two Poems by Nicanor Parra (translated by Liz Werner) Something Like That PARRA LAUGHS like he’s condemned to hell but when haven’t poets laughed? at least he declares that he’s laughing they pass the years pass the years at least they seem to be passing hypothesis non fingo everything goes on as if they were…