Literary Zone

American poet Constance Urdang

The Madman By Constance Urdang At first, he wondered why he should be spared; Observed, of all the windows, none was barred, And every door (...)

| 1 month ago | 2820 views

Nigerian poet Uche Nduka

A Green Dream Uche Nduka Winter frock marigold robe between brownstones where yearning confesses its nature when the mail makes you (...)

| 2 months ago | 2727 views

Russian writer Andrei Voznesensky

From the Window of a Plane By Andrei Voznesensky From MOSAIC In the world of friends, where travel is slower, What do you do there, in the (...)

| 2 months ago | 2729 views

Chinese writer Wang Ping

Things We Carry on the Sea By Wang Ping We carry tears in our eyes: good-bye father, good-bye mother We carry soil in small bags: may home never (...)

| 2 months ago | 2877 views

Personal reflections on Ismael Kadare

Translator David Bellos shares a series of revealing, funny and moving memories of the giant of Balkan literature, who died earlier this week. Between (...)

| 3 months ago | 3346 views

Poem by Subhashini Kaligotla

Requiem By Subhashini Kaligotla Requiem What remains of you beloved to haunt Self like the (...)

| 3 months ago | 2641 views

Saint Lucian poet Derek Walcott

The Sea Is History By Derek Walcott Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that grey vault. The sea (...)

| 3 months ago | 2244 views

American poet Jane Kenyon

The Clothes Pin By Jane Kenyon, USA How much better it is to carry wood to the fire than to moan about your life. How much better to (...)

| 4 months ago | 2939 views

Italian poet Milo De Angelis

The Sounds That Arrived By Milo De Angelis The wolf is still under the blanket and a thousand questions are needed to grasp it even if the (...)

| 4 months ago | 1894 views

Japanese poet Yuki Tanaka

Aubade By Yuki Tanaka I sit on a chair and the chair touches me back. According to my chair, I have two hips and bones inside them hard as (...)

| 4 months ago | 2692 views

Chinese writer Zheng Xiaoqiong

Water Becomes Water By Zheng Xiaoqiong Water becomes water’s shape in the water, inside the machine we become the image of the machine, the dusk (...)

| 4 months ago | 2973 views

British writer Malachi McIntosh

Malachi McIntosh was born in Birmingham but raised in the United States. He worked for five years in academia after completing a PhD in English, but (...)

| 5 months ago | 3524 views