Sudeep Sen presents poems by Oklahoma poet Daniel Simon, Editor in Chief of World Literature Today.
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Poetry Takeaway
Editor David Shook showcases the world’s first mobile poetry emporium, The Poetry Takeaway, which appeared at 2012′s Poetry Parnassus in London
Suggested Collected
Though history has enshrined several of his contemporaries, no doubt at least in part to their active politicking as critics, Countee Cullen, with the exception of his anthology poems, has been overlooked, despite his formal mastery and his engagement with social and aesthetic issues of his day, at turns Keatsian and witty.
Stalin the Poet?
In 1948 W.H. Auden wrote that “The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality in a statesman.” Here, Stalin’s poetry offers proof positive.
Turkish Delights
At Chora, I purchased the inaugural issue of The Istanbul Review, edited by Hande Zapsu Watt, now available at many government-owned tourism sites in greater Istanbul. The 200+ page glossy includes brief interviews with Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Gerhard Schröder, Elif Shafak, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya, Banana Yoshimoto, and an annoying Paolo Coelho. Highlights of the issue include [...]
Three in Spanish
Elisa Rizo’s Caminos y Veredas: Narrativas de Guinea Ecuatorial (Textos de Difusión Cultural UNAM) provides a much-needed update to the selection of Equatorial Guinean fiction available outside the country. The book features one to three short stories each by Donato Ndongo, Justo Bolekia Boleka, José Fernando Siale Djangany, Juan Tomas Ávila Laurel, and Recaredo Silebo [...]
The Black Olive Tree and Other Memories
Translator Clare Sullivan recounts her experiences with indigenous women poets in Oaxaca, Mexico. “The women I met are custodians of culture and of memory. In their poetry, as in their stories, they combine nurturing and insight with fierceness and fire.”
Offerings to the God of Attention: Recent Literary Events in Bali and Australia
Australian poet John Mateer contemplates recent literary events in Bali and Perth, Australia, celebrating a wide range of world writers and detailing his own offerings to the Gods of Attention.
Dismantling Wisdom: A Brief Conversation with Ed Bok Lee
Poet Ed Bok Lee discusses Whorled, his second collection, the past as sacred text, and poetry as the dismantler of wisdom.
World Poetry Portfolio #48: Colm Breathnach
Sudeep Sen presents Colm Breathnach’s poetry, translated from the Irish by their author, including “Good Night, Ya Bastard.”
Stealing Fire for His Own Furnaces: Clayton Eshleman on Translation
This year alone, poet Clayton Eshleman has published co-translations of of work by Aimé Césaire, Bei Dao, and Bernard Bador. In his conversation with David Shook, he excavates his personal history to explain what draws him to Césaire and Vallejo, explains his Bei Dao project, and details his personal translation process.
World Poetry Portfolio #47: Lesley Saunders
Poet Lesley Saunders, co-founder of the The Bloody Poets, has collaborated with Peter Hay, Jane Draycott, and Geoff Carr. Sudeep Sen presents 10 of her poems as the 47th installment of his World Poetry Portfolio.