June 2020 – Page 2

From the Archives: Five Poems, by Edwin Torres

Happy birthday, Edwin Torres! Celebrate by reading these Torres poems we published last year! The Interrupted Blanket the effort…

Happy birthday, Rone Shavers! Celebrate by reading these Shavers crônicas we published last year! Crônica No. 1: On the…

Throughout the current modern era the African solstice has remained condemned, modified, used for psychic flavoring, always at the…

Writes: “I am not unhappy, ” the light reversed, a mirror trick, setting sun a circle upon the east…

In “A Minotaur in Bellevue,” Jacob Riis, who documented the poverty of New York City slums at the end…

Happy birthday, John Edgar Wideman! 79 today! Here are some quotes from his writings and interviews. “I love…

Happy birthday, Che Guevara! Here some quotes from the revolutionary. “I have lived magnificent days.” “If you…

Happy birthday, Fernando Pessoa! Here are some quotes from his writing. “Be plural, like the universe!” “To…

Happy birthday, William Butler Yeats! Here are some quotes from his writing: “Words alone are certain good.” …

Happy birthday, Karen Heuler! Celebrate by reading this fiction we published last year! He captured the first word in…