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Four Poems from Salsa

God made the heaven and the earth and on the seventh day / Languid and no longer loving we drifted into the forest More

PEN Appeal: Dawit Isaac

September 22, 2011 His Excellency Issayas Afewerki Office of the President P O Box 257 Asmara, Eritrea Fax: + 2911 125123 Your Excellency, On behalf of the 3,500 members of PEN American Center, an international… More

Visions of a Disaster

The reader embarks upon two journeys: in the first, we drive with protagonist and narrator Pablo from Spain to France as he pursues his girlfriend Teba, who is on… More

PEN Appeal: Abu Zara Al-Amin

September 14, 2011 H.E. President Omar Al Bashir Office of the President People’s Palace P.O. Box 281 Khartoum Sudan Fax: +249 183 782 541 / +249 183 774339 Minister of Justice Mr. Mohammed Bushara Dousa Ministry of Justice P.O. Box… More

PEN Appeal: Faranak Farid

September 20, 2011 His Excellency Ayatollah Sayed ‘Ali Khamenei Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic The Office of the Supreme Leader Shoahada Street Qom Islamic Republic of Iran Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani Head of the Judiciary c/o Public… More

PEN Appeal: Lu Van Bay

September 21, 2011 His Excellency Nguyên Minh Triêt President of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam Ministry of Foreign Affairs Hanoi Socialist Republic of Vietnam Minister of Public Security Lt Gen Tran Dai Quang Ministry of Public… More

Ascension

blues poet stands / at a crossroads framed / in indigo light. / he reaches his hand around /to his left side, slits himself / open as if to… More

A Different Way of Knowing

This is a rad interview between Matthew Zapruder and Dean Rader over at SFGate. It’s pretty amazing to hear both poets talk about how there poems come together. More