GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) THE END OF THE FABLES Once upon a time, there was a fox … starts the rooster to compose a fable But perceives that it cannot work because if the fox hears the fable he will…
Poetry
Valeria Cimo’s Terramadonna
A S.Rosalia (Terramadonna) For Falcone and Borsellino. Ddici la santa ca’ i Palermitani addivintaru comu i vavaluci dici ca n’sannu cchiù fari all’amuri e pi’ chistu i fimmini i’ fannu curnuti ca lu curaggiu c’addivintau muoddu comu li vertuli d’un…
Joe Hill
ATTILIO IANNIELLO, LESLIE MCBRIDE WILE and SILVIA PIO (edited by) The Preacher and the Slave (1911, take-off on the hymn “Sweet Bye and Bye”, often sung by Salvation Army bands) Long-haired preachers come out every night, Try to tell you…
Uttering Her Name
SILVIA PIO (edited by) From Uttering Her Name, by Gabriel Rosenstock, Salmon Poetry 2009 Preface: Who is Dar Óma to whom these poems are addressed? Historically, or mythologically, she is the daughter of the god Oghma who gave the gift…
The sound of one hand clapping
Question: What is the sound of one hand clapping? Answer: Poetry. In occasion of the forthcoming publication of his book Changing, the British poet Richard Berengarten will be an international guest at the Silk Road Poetry Week in Xichang, Sichuan,…
Poets of the World, Hamza Hassan Sheikh, Pakistan
LAMENT OF A SCHOOL BOY My little body is drenched With my own blood My head is not with me My body is shattered too Now no one is able To recognize me. The cruel man dyed His filthy dreams…
Parade of Poems
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) SOMOZA UNVEILS THE STATUE OF SOMOZA IN THE STADIUM OF SOMOZA I do not believe that the people erected this statue to me because I know better than you that I ordered it myself. Neither do…