Polish poetry
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April 28, 2021 |
Ghetto Heroes Square in Kraków / Photo by annaspies / Flickr Piotr Florczyk’s From the Annals of Kraków (Lynx House Press, 2020) narrates the searing realization of an almost unnoti... -
April 14, 2021 |
Photo by Jerry Bauer I was waiting for a tennis court on the lakeshore in Chicago when I read that Adam Zagajewski died. I have always considered tennis like writing: you practice to get into... -
March 22, 2021 |
When we heard the news yesterday that Adam Zagajewski had passed away at the age of seventy-five in Kraków, Poland, we immediately thought not only of his exceptional poetry and essays but also o... -
March 30, 2015 |
Tomas Tranströmer delivering his acceptance speech for the Neustadt Prize in June 1990. When news broke late last week that Nobel Prize laureate Tomas Tranströmer had died in St... -
March 19, 2015 |
Jane Hirshfield. Photo by Nick Rosza News, Reviews, and Interviews Brand new literary translation publisher Deep Velllum is picking up momentum. The publisher has just released the first of legendar...
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Series editor’s note: The poem this week, “The Mothers,” by Arao Ameny, is less of a poem and more of an...
As a longtime admirer of Chase Twichell’s powerfully spare poetry that combines the wisdom of her Zen practice with her sharp perspicacity for...
Drawing inspiration from the writing of Lesley Nneka Arimah, Edwin Okolo creates a world of birth factories, colossal levees, secret labs, and...
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I kiss her
& death
is the shadow of that loving bird
shaking
on the pool
yet
when she turns to look...
Photo by Deborah Vaia
Amber Ambrose Aurèle is a shoe designer, teacher, and art historicist. In 2012 she graduated as one of the first-...
