Poetry of Recovery

My friend and colleague Satyendra Srivastava passed away during the summer. I met Satyendra through my work as editor of After Shocks: The ...

The Hebrew Union College Press, in collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Press, has just released the first collection in English...

Month without a Moon Any night I like, I can rise instead of the moon that has forgotten us, not a thought of our sad lot, and roam the...

Many Feet Going by R. G. Evans What they don't tell you is that it's a tightrope walk and you will be nude, body all counterwe...

It's no surprise that Majid Naficy begins his biography with the reading of a poem, but the poem's horrifying significance beco...

To the Children of Prison and Exile After the silence of firing squads Still it burns in our hearts And we carry their corpses On our b...

from OVER TIME &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp October 2004 1 Not much. Less. Slip of a finger, diminished inter...

Pit Pony There are only a few left, he says, kept by old Welsh miners, souvenirs, like gallstones or ...

William Greenway's poem "Entrance" is featured at Poetry Daily today. You can find it at Poetry Daily: "Entrance" ...

Kevin Simmonds' new collection Bend to it was just released this Spring from Salmon Poetry. Kevin is an award-winning poet and musicia...

Noted Theologian Walter Brueggemann has used the poem “After Katrina” in his new book Reality, Grief, Hope: Three Urgent Prophetic Tasks ....

There’s no Sabbath in this house Just work The black of garbage bags yellow-cinched throats opening to gloved hands Black tombs alo...

Susan Laughter Meyers will read from her new collection My Dear, Dear Stagger Grass at the Poetrio Reading Series Sunday, November 3, 3 PM...

Reconstruction From his VA hospital bed, the man motions to the corridor; his jaw is crooked, wide open like the entrance to a cave. ...

On the first night after you die, we make love. Your tongue, a sparrow in my mouth. On the second night, you dye the white egg of a parr...

Do You Know About the Raintree? Do you know about the world’s broad belt? &nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&nbsp&n...