Liu Xiaobao Wins Nobel Peace Prize
A Small Rat in Prison for Little Xia a small rat passes through the iron bars paces back and forth …
Category Archives: Poetry
PDF Dunya Mikhail – Iraqi Poet in Exile
Dunya Mikhail is a remarkable Iraqi poet now working her craft in Michigan. Her poem “War Works Hard” is just …
Poets:The Far Flung Word
I can’t say how really amazing it is to be at the GRD Poetry Festival in Newark, to see poets …
The Republic of Poetry
by Martin Espada For Chile In the republic of poetry, a train full of poets rolls south in the rain …
Tongue of War: Some Poems
Beach Landing, Iwo Jima They didn’t shoot at us. A silent scene until we clogged the beach, and then–all hell, …
St. Patrick’s Day Remembrance
We had to leave the Hunger said my Da. We walked the half of Ireland trying not to see what …
The Way
Lao Tzu’s (Old Master) Tao Te Ching [Way and Virtue The Ancient Text] is one of the oldest meditations we …