Sea Monster
A secret: all the oceans are one oceanAnd the ocean looks the same everywhere.Nevertheless, let us praise the white hour,When the depths disappear...
Neoplasm
Sounds like an art movement --Neoclassicism, for example.
But this is no art form.This is a biosphere of portentous possibilities.
Tubular, twistedand prickly papilla
what sculpted youinto...
Translated from the Romanian by Claudia Serea
We conclude our celebration of Women in Translation Month this week. Katherine E. Young, Poet Laureate Emerita of...
Translated from the Albanian by Ani Gjika
We continue our celebration of Women in Translation Month this week. Katherine E. Young, Poet Laureate Emerita of...
Bourgeon continues its celebration of Women in Translation Month.
Rationing
In the line a woman shoutsthere’s flour
I think of warm biscuits
Soon I hearonly rice is leftbut...
co-translated from the Vietnamese by Nancy Arbuthnot and Lê Phạm Lê
Editor's note: August is Women in Translation Month. Bourgeon is celebrating by offering the...
HUSBAND
A handthat reaches out
mooring mefrom a night of wind-tossed dreams
luring me back to portthis bed our terra firma
the heat of his palmthe only thing...
There is in the Water
What happened here the history I mean thismean thing there right there the bridgewhere they were lynched and who elsewas there and this is always here Ito make them mean something and howcan inanimate objects say...
occupier artclasswindow is crackedopen to let fresh air in. outsidesunny schoolyard under
lovely cloudless sky,the kind of blue beggingto be licked and torn asunderby hungry...
