Poems

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  • From Night, by Ennio Moltedo, translated from Spanish by Marguerite Feitlowitz

    Can we go on like this?
  • Occupation

    As a peeper, some clear night, singing for a star,
  • Were We So Fragile?

    What promises didn’t you deliver, beautiful Life!
  • Mangos | Talking Animals | Bringing Things Back From the Woods

    We did not have mango trees back home on the prairies.  The climate and soil conditions were not conducive to that
  • Today’s Comedy

    Why Dante in summer?
  • In the Late Style of Eros

    Loneliness is a female shark
  • Two Poems by George Seferis, translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg

    George Seferis, Two Poems,  translated from modern Greek by Jennifer R. Kellogg     Holy Saturday   Tomorrow, the brilliant light of Easter. It will rain, but at least we won’t be in the office. The lambs, in the oven, remind me of a huge nursery.   Korce, Albania 5.1.1937     Μεγάλο Σάββατο   Αύριο Λαμπρή. Βρέχει αλλά δε

  • Exclusive Beautiful Grapheme War

    history means touch, bodies
  • Back in the U.S.S.R

    We weren’t the Beach Boys’ California girls,
  • After Our Parents Get Divorced, Our Mother Buys an Ivy Stencil

    In the small white bedroom
  • Eggs

    Eggs in the cakes invoked by Marie Antoinette.
  • Bridge Thrill

    After two days of TV airlifts and wheels-to-the-sky