Category: Published Issues
Two Juans: A Knowing Beyond Knowledge
Paul Pines Two Juans: A Knowing Beyond Knowledge “. . . i recognize your face\ like memory in every face . . .” Argentine poet Juan Gelman
The Swimming Pool at Villa Grimaldi
Martín Espada The Swimming Pool at Villa Grimaldi Santiago, Chile Beyond the gate where the convoys spilled their cargo of blindfolded
DISAPPEARED/DESAPARECIDO
George Evans DISAPPEARED/DESAPARECIDO for Juan Gelman Anticipating someone might claim him one day the gravediggers left their ropes
No-Man’s-Land
Daisy Zamora No–Man’s–Land to the poets I love We are a minefield of clarity, and whoever crosses the barbed wire comes
A Photograph of Juan Gelman Dressed to the Nines
Sergio Ramírez A Photograph of Juan Gelman Dressed to the Nines I have seen the figure of Juan Gelman in formal attire bowing gracefully over a
Archilochos in Baghdad
Doug Anderson Archilochos in Baghdad There is less noise now except in your head. The smirking rich have gone home with their take and left you
from Sleeping with Sappho
Stephen Vincent from Sleeping with Sappho 36. Andrew The joker dropped Melissa a dead letter ] Out of Delphi — without a prayer Indelicate Jane
XI.
Susan Sherman XI. There is no way to imagine her final hours what she saw when she finally descended into that darkness she loved so well
To Juan Gelman
Gioconda Belli To Juan Gelman I think, Juan that we are a man and a woman wandering aimlessly through the world, with a muted question behind the
Reading Juan Gelman Poems over the Phone
Gioconda Belli Reading Juan Gelman Poems over the Phone I first met Juan Gelman at the craziest and most fantastic gathering of poets ever. It