by Poetry International | Feb 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
On The Vulnerability of a Strong Poet Translating Akhmatova’s Female Love by Olga Livshin On the Vulnerability of a Strong Poet: Translating Akhmatova’s Female Love In the West, Anna Akhmatova is broadly known as one of the most powerful voices for poetry of... by Poetry International | Feb 25, 2026 | Uncategorized
The Perpetual Ideal Memories of a Master Class with Derek Walcott by Patrick James Errington POETRY MASTERCLASSES rarely, if ever, kick-off right on time, so we wouldn’t ordinarily have rushed. But on this particular morning, the eight of us weren’t just on time, we... by Poetry International | Feb 18, 2026 | Uncategorized
Against the Failure of Poetry In praise of Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021) by Piotr Florczyk ACCORDING TO SOME POETS and critics, even working poets hate poetry. Why? Because poems so often fail in their efforts to express the ineffable. Spurred to write, poets sense, can... by Julia Kolchinsky | Feb 18, 2026 | Alphabetical Order, Poetry, Uncategorized
The Usual Suspects or a Chronological List of the Ways Men Have Referred to my Breast: by Julia Kolchinsky 1. Look at them jiggle, the boyswould say in middle school gym, beforeI learned the art of sports bras. 2. They shrunk! Those sameboys whispered when I... by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach | Feb 18, 2026 | Alphabetical Order, Poetry, Uncategorized
Listening to Michael Jackson In A Closet by Julia Kolchinsky & on a kitchen floor & as a child & in our firstapartment several stops from DC & on the wayto the white house & in a bedroom of sevenrefugees & as a daughter who broughtAmerican... by Joan Houlihan | Feb 18, 2026 | Alphabetical Order, Poetry, Uncategorized
In Cancer by Joan Houlinah Strung days, a punctureand the insect enteredYou told me: All dies. For this, we’re intended. Strung then by peonies’heft and lush wastebent-headedI hid from the day. Inside, the walls speckle.Stark, kitchen-litflies pock the tableblack as...