Poetry

March 2011

Finesse de Brasil

By Virgil Mihaiu

the bossa novasof the'60saccompanied bythe vaguely irregularvaguely neuroticrim shotsof the stickclicking horizontallyon the snare drumfrom the perspectiveof the 21st century –a sort of clockworktick-...
March 2011

By Virgil Mihaiu

Virgil Mihaiu/text & Alan Tomlinson/trombone A historical document from the beginnings of the JAZZOGRAPHICS, here in their embryonic nucleus: Virgil Mihaiu/text & Alan Tomlinson/trombone....
March 2011

By Virgil Mihaiu

Dumitru Belinschi / keyboards & piano; Marius Gagiu / flute & percussion; Mario Florescu / drums & percussion; Virgil Mihaiu / poetry & percussion This audio sample is recorded fragm...
March 2011

What You Might Hear

By Lauren Camp

When I realized I could make mistakes . . . I decided I was really on to something. — Ornette Coleman You can tell by the rumble of tall incantationsthat he has secured sound into a m...
March 2011

Thelonious Monk on a Subway

By Lauren Camp

I met Monk on a subway, coming through the tunnel. His words fell out be- tween thick beard hairs, then lumbered toward me, paused and sighed. When the...
May 2011

"The Castaway"

By Alessio Zanelli

As a child he’d been feeding on sea stories, sea people, sea adventures. Benign and adverse sea, calm and rough, emeraldand leaden. Tale after tale, book after book, devoured byinsane desires, adrift...
March 2011

同居他们将在街头同人生的三个意向相遇：老人烟斗的余火、儿童涂写在墙上的笔迹和湿漉漉的雨中行走的女人的小腿...... 他们徘徊了一整夜围绕小白房子寻找标记太阳升起来了，归宿仍不能断决错误就从这时发生没有经过祈祷他们就会睡到一张床上并且毫不顾忌室外光线在晚些时候的残酷照射因而能够带着动人的笑容睡去像故去一样竟然连再温柔的事情也懒得回忆 ...
January 2012

By Irma Pineda, Natalia Toledo, Victor Terán

Irma Pineda "You Will Not See Me Die" Natalia Toledo "The Weaver" "For T.S. Eliot" Victor Terán "I Know Your Body"
January 2012

By Feliciano Sánchez Chan

Translator’s note: Feliciano Sánchez Chan is among a growing group of poets (including Briceida Cuevas Cob and Isaac Carrillo Can) writing modern verse in the ancient language of Mayan. The M...
January 2012

Four Poems by Nathalie Handal

By Nathalie Handal

The four recordings here are from Poet in Andalucía, forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press in January 2012. "Tree of Red Leaves, Jaén" "Prophet in Andalucía" "La...
July 2011

By Julian Stannard

Plan B We’re trundling down Via Balbipast palaces of glory and endless virtue. We’re fecund with children, we’re good at thatand some of us have rabbits in our pockets. We are fluent in sundry dialect...
July 2011

Three Micropoems from Dimenticatoio

By Leonardo Sinisgalli

The Mothers Far from being goddesses or sibyls:the poor motherssuffering from migrainescrushed by the heart’s servitude. Dear Life Dear life,you chose colourless places,anonymous hours,the tritest o...
July 2011

By Ascanio Celestini

Ascanio Celestini - "Fabbrica", Teatro Ambra Jovinelli, Rome, March 2007 Photo: Maila Iacovelli - Fabio Zayed/Spot the Difference I have a technique.When I attend a meeting, I sit down, I pull ou...
July 2011

"The Atlantic Day," Patrizia Cavalli

By Patrizia Cavalli

When with my judgment I laymyself out to the tepid peace of every day,the docile afternoons, the wide and naturalsleep, no longer opposed to the climatethat equal and still caresses me instead– the cl...
July 2011

By Pier Luigi Bacchini

A turkey-oak two hundred years old nowno one has pollarded. Beneath itthere live vipers – woody elbows acheagainst the back. And one nightupon the roots, you rebelled, and with such violenceas to rema...
July 2011

"The Glory"

By Maria Luisa Spaziani

in the wind they sowed their long phrases– like scarves they'd wave in the wind – the wind ripped many scarves by chanceand carried them away in frayed cloud shapes – the poet always scatters her word...
September 2011

The End of a Love Affair

By Ngwatilo Mawiyoo

Photo by Jerry Riley Credits:“Suspend Me / The End of a Love Affair”Music – Wambura Mitaru Spoken Vocal – Ngwatilo MawiyooBacking Vocal – Sara MitaruProduced/Arranged by David “Blackman” Mut...
September 2011

Two Poems

By Maya Khosla

Dispersal Oak crickets dedicate their shrilling to the stars: tireless desire pitched into the jeweled universe with the most power a chorus of cells can muster. Such surges are rooted at...
September 2011

Two Poems

By Nicholas Samaras

Inventing Peace I make this room a country of peace. Within these walls, I am the harmony of an individual with no nationalism, claims or agenda, no chorus of discord, no borders but redwood wai...
November 2011

By Ksenia Shcherbino

1that red wasn't forever-redthey never taught us to tell colors apart –those that were real from those that were not the ship was sailing, the cargo launched,goblins recited a sonnet by heart –rowing...
November 2011

By Viktor Ivaniv

The city as though laid out in my palmAnd I passed through all my old hauntsI took off easily in youthThoughts hung in a beat of easy doubt Like shades of Aladdin's would-be uncleRun in four direction...
November 2011

By Sergej Timofejev

I want to tell you simple truths,Reveal important things to you.Always open doors, step into elevators,Go upstairs, move down corridors.Always get into cars, start the engine,And if it's winter, wait...
November 2011

By Feodor Swarovski

four Canadians have saved the world from genetic catastropheone Armenian has invented a new form of rocket fueland medicine to cure cancerone Russian sacrificed himselfunplugged a reactor and saved th...
November 2011

By Artur Punte

to V. L. Where were you led by the keyword searchfor your own name, following the links,you suddenly find yourself twenty years laterin an apartment without a single book,without bookshelves.Your town...
November 2011

By Semyon Khanin

why did I keep yelling I'm an electricianI'm no electrician what came over me I gestured at outletscozied up to the circuit box, held the meter close no one is buying it here's my license, look, my ce...