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Contributed By: Eleni Kefala, Jacqueline Schaalje, Peter Constantine
Contributed By: Emily Rankin, Nicole Cecilia Delgado, Sarah Pazen
Contributed By: Hoyt Rogers, Yves Bonnefoy
A wet canvas ragbag in the gutter: it’s the picture of grapes by Zeuxis, which enraged birds craved so much, picked apart so fiercely with their greedy beaks, that the clusters vanished, then the colors, then every trace of the image at this hour—the twilight of the world—when they dragged it across the flagstones.
Contributed By: Alexy Dumenigo, Toshiya Kamei
Izokumi For casualties and survivors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki It began with a flash. A chalky light filled every corner of the small hospital room and pierced the girl’s closed eyelids. Her nightmares that had haunted her since the night before faded as she woke. However, the intense light around her prevented her from opening […]
Contributed By: Andrew Barrett, Dimitris Lyacos, Nelson Lowhim
G We don’t know how and under what circumstances they left from that place, whether they abandoned the city and at what time depth. Whether they left in stages, or they all left together, if they moved somewhere else, or if something happened to make them emigrate in a short span of time. We don’t […]
Contributed By: Caroline Maldonado, Franca Mancinelli, John Taylor
Italian poet Franca Mancinelli has internalized the landscape she grew up in poetically to express some of her deepest emotions. Beginning from the tremors, earthquakes and mudslides of her life and landscape, the poet develops her riveting ars poetica. “I have often felt that I carry writing in my body,” she writes, “that I have been inscribed in the darkness. (…) We are the imprint of the time that has been, of the life that has passed through us. By writing we bring to light these signs that we contain, as they are, obscure and indecipherable to us. It is like leaning over a threshold that looks into the void. We are between the unknown and nothingness.”
Contributed By: David M. Brunson, Gerardo Arístides Rivodó
Contributed By: Claudea, Dragana Mokan, John K. Cox
Contributed By: Gustavo Pérez Firmat, Luis Alberto de Cuenca
Contributed By: Jacqueline Schaalje, Jamie Chang, Kim Hye-jin