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Poetry

28-12-11

Miles to go Sheniz Janmohamed

  (Inspired by Robert Frost)       If only I had enough pens, enough to write ghazals in my  Read more…

Poetry

27-09-11

Reprieve, This is also that & Golden Afternoon Arjun Janah

  Reprieve Back again in Brooklyn, where it’s hot. Coffee upstairs in McDonald’s with A.C., at eighty-sixth and twentieth. Music  Read more…

Poetry

27-09-11

Budapest Suites & More Bryan Sentes

  Budapest Suites, I (from Grand Gnostic Central:  DC Books, 1998)   “Apply what you know to what you feel  Read more…

Poetry

04-07-11

Montreal Maya Khankhoje

  I love Montreal, tu sais because English  here is charmant and French  c’est cool because locals  know that a  Read more…

Poetry

04-07-11

32nd Ave., Lachine & Beggar, Namur Station Louise Carson

  32nd Ave., Lachine Now night, and off the curving yellow arches, the light, usually so harsh, glows dull in  Read more…

Poetry

04-07-11

Unease Gabrielle Mathews

*** Editors note: Gabrielle Mathews has just won the junior category prize for this poem in the “Act NOW! International  Read more…

Poetry

12-03-11

Nasser Ehab Lotayef

These days I can’t but remember Gamal Abdel Nasser.  The Arab people are now finding unity in demands, hopes and  Read more…

Poetry

12-03-11

The Journey, The Market & The Manuscript Joshua Rapp Learn

The Journey I marched through thick snow until leaves began to reappear on deciduous trees, pine needles protruding from toes  Read more…

Poetry

27-12-10

3 Poems Tomás Ramírez

De Maiz… Everyone is igualdad Said the man of the wise mind And the old hands He told me We  Read more…

Poetry

27-12-10

4 Poems Ilona Martonfi

SAND PLAINS, 1848 When deer are mating: The clatter of antlers. Sound of the drum beating- Log house where the  Read more…

Poetry

27-12-10

What will the traveller see on the horizon? – From the meaning of Inuit place names & Superposition Martyn Bryant

What will the traveller see on the horizon? – From the meaning of Inuit place names This place is not  Read more…

Poetry

27-12-10

My hands can still plough the fields. Priyanka Borpujari

My hands can still plough the fields. He was a teacher, my younger boy He taught me to write my  Read more…

Poetry

28-09-10

Settlements Ehab Lotayef

  Intro: Speaking in Montreal, David Shulman, an Israeli activist, described the luxurious, yet windowless, houses of the illegal Jewish  Read more…

Poetry

28-09-10

4 poems Louise Carson

  In Gaza breast milk for two years a well-spaced brother organic baby food furniture safety-checked growth carefully plotted then  Read more…

Poetry

28-09-10

“Howl to the Dying of the Moon” Prospero Saiz

[from my Iraq suite, “Howl to the Dying of the Moon”] * A lean desert wolf howls… A child is  Read more…

Poetry

26-06-10

At Red River’s Edge & other poems Bryan Sentes

It is perhaps inescapable, my being born and raised in a North American suburb in the latter half of the  Read more…

Poetry

25-06-10

4 Poems Shyamal Bagchee

  lines for qi baishi (1864-1957) dear qi baishi your neat little cottages worry me a lot are those just  Read more…

Poetry

25-06-10

Far Away & Río Lagartos Ilona Martonfi

       FAR AWAY     to the south     bayous—      ruptured oil well tar balls soiling protected wetlands  Read more…

Poetry

25-06-10

Where? Somewhere & Death of Life Anisha Dutt

  Where? Somewhere. She walked some more to reach the unknown. Some more, another mile to go there, where? Somewhere.  Read more…

Poetry

25-06-10

Scenes from Carthage Nadine Ltaif

  This morning I plunged into the arms of death. I immersed myself in wisdom.   In the silence the  Read more…

Poetry

25-06-10

Cold Questions Pat Osborne

  In the small, dark hours, I perceive frozen chunks set loose in me:                        jagged blocks of icy skin above  Read more…

Poetry

30-03-10

Stiletto, Heels and a Pork Pie Hat – a collection of poetry Luigi Monteferrante

  The following poems are taken from Luigi Moneferrante’s new collection entitled:   Stiletto Heels And a Pork Pie Hat On  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

1984 Widow Colony Jaspreet Singh

          Hope- For them hope is a rubber tyre around their necks Someone will douse kerosene  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

Parallèles et palpitations… John Fretz

    Le fils de madame Locarno a écrit un roman. Mon dieux dite-elle,  à tous ceux qui l’interpellent Cette  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

Hero Lesley Pasquin

      The woodcutter’s daughter was not the one saved when       he split open the wolf. Hero to someone  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

The Poet Uday Khankhoje

    So poet, you think you’re a mystic? With oars of words and boats of paper you navigate the  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

Shelf Subir Das

    Given it starts me reading, Letters on a page open up with meaning, With someone else’s words who  Read more…

Poetry

01-12-09

The Great Foreskin Debate K. Gandhar Chakravarty

   Why do Jews have to be circumcised? Christ was a Jew before the Christians arrived, Yet Catholics tend to  Read more…

Poetry

26-09-09

Fault Lines: Lost in the Land of Plenty, Bureaucratic Priorities, The Counting of the Homeless Gary Beck

  Lost in the Land of Plenty   I live in a welfare hotel and when the electricity gets shut  Read more…

Prose

26-09-09

My Daughter, Marisa Ilona Martonfi

  With nails that curved over toes. Her limbs, limp, her eyes vacant. She took her acoustic guitar to music  Read more…

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