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Poetry Untethered

  • Ngwatilo Mawiyoo
    Photo by Jerry RileyCredits:“Suspend Me / The End of a Love Affair”Music – Wambura Mitaru Spoken Vocal – Ngwatilo MawiyooBacking Vocal – Sara MitaruProduced/Arranged by David “Blackman”…
  • Maya Khosla
    DispersalOak crickets dedicate their shrilling to the stars:     tireless desire pitched into the jeweled universe          w…
  • Bill Manhire
    Photo by Ed SwindenCream torpedoes? The reference is to a Tweet I spotted recently: "A cream torpedo from the Hataitai Bakery! I feel like I am in a poem by Jenny Bornholdt." The Tweeter? Cheryl Berns…
  • Nicholas Samaras
    Inventing Peace I make this room  a country of peace. Within these walls, I am the harmony of an individual with no nationalism, claims or agenda, no chorus of discord,  no borders b…
  • Dana Gioia
    A poem by Dana Gioia / Spanish translation by José Emilio PachecoThe world does not need words. It articulates itselfin sunlight, leaves, and shadows. The stones on the pathare no less real for lying…
  • John Mateer
    Mall of the EmiratesWe don't use the word "exile" anymore,despite meeting in the Mall of the Emirates,that hyperbolic cave, ordering what is expensivepeasant food, while contemplating our prospectson…