(SILVIA PIO edited by) Poems: POEM FOR MITKO Michael Rothenberg SHELL BEACH Michael Rothenberg CATHOLIC SCHOOL RETABLOS Terri Carrion WHY I STARTED BREEDING BUTTERFLIES Terri Carrion An interview with Michael Rothenberg and Terry Carrión, founders of the global poetry movement…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) [ What’s your idea about my days that I usually spend without you? about my words that used rapidly evaporate and about my heavy pain about the knots that have sedimented inside my thorax like dried…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) Never Alone Always this caressing wind this earth whispering to our feet this boundless desire of being grass tree heart *** Earth Poems and butterflies fly with wings over any border FRANCISCO ALARCÓN (Mexico, 1954-2016) Translation…
Untitled I lean Against an imaginary wall Breathless Some of me is still running A distant lull Of fast train on humming tracks My fragile secrets Reach up and hide the stars. I light my imaginary Cigarette It makes this…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) AWAITING HIM In the morning I wake up like a gazelle enjoying myself in the mountainside, waiting for you. At midday, buried among flowers, I start to draw your name in the womb of the river’s…
SILVIA PIO (edited by) From The Emperor’s way to Constantinople (August 1990) The last Byzantine emperor was crowned at Mystras in Greece. He then travelled south by land to the great port of Monemvássia. From there he embarked for the…
GERMAIN DROOGENBROODT (edited by) DISCOMFORTS Of course I feel miserable, now and then. Sick as a dog. Of course, now and then, everything hurts, or even worse- it is one or the other. Of course I should take some of…
