Six Haiku by Thaís Fernandes
Six haiku ranging from current events to nature to mystery, from Brazilian poet and translator Thaís Fernandes.
Got a revolution (got to revolution)!
It’s time to return to the 1960s tactics of the Civil Rights and Anti-War Movements. It’s time to hit the streets! Strike! Moratorium! Protest! Get in the faces of the fascists! Call for National Protests on 30 June 2018! Let’s make it Global! Click here to find a […]
Behind Closed Doors to Hotel Rooms
Amanda Palmer and Jasmine Power have combined haunting, almost ghost-like voices singing memories into a powerful anthem for women taking back their own narrative—taking the script (writing) back from the Harvey Weinsteins of the world.
crossing as we would | gary lundy | review & new poetry
Book review of gary lundy’s poetry collection, “each room echoes absence,” plus six new poems of his.
Hear the Dissonance | Video
A HamiltonSeen film by Cody Lanktree of Michael Dickel reading his poem, “But Hear the Dissonance, 1948-2012.”
February Readings!
I have readings in Gainesville (14th) and Tallahassee (16th), Florida, next week, and one in Hamilton, Ontario (23rd), the following week. Find the details on my Event Page! Please come if you are near, and—near or far—spread the word to your friends and family.
American- Israeli Poet, Michael Dickel (War Surrounds Us) will be in Hamilton, ON; Tallahassee, FL; and Long Island, NY
Originally posted on Jamie Dedes' THE POET BY DAY Webzine:
“That some of those labelled as enemies have crossed the lines to offer condolences at the mourning tents; that the mourning families spoke to each other as parents and cried on each others’ shoulders; that we cried for…
In a petri dish world | 3 poems | James Dennis Casey IV
Three social-political activist poems from James D. Casey IV on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play.
Week 11: Michael Dickel
An experimental poem by Michael Dickel on Anti-Narrative— Prologue to Dick Moby experimental Melville Orphan another found only children missing her after search retracing her in that, Rachel cruising—devious. Last up, me— picked and, nearer, near drew sail, a day, a second, on the. Beaks sheathed with sailed […]
wet gems you’d strain to see | Jennifer Juneau
Moon Song, Driving it Home and Keeping it There, Vanishing Act | Three Poems by Jennifer Juneau | Meta/ Phor(e) /Play
She enjoyed scavenging | Meg Harris
She enjoyed scavenging—three poems by Meg Harris: Memory, Bird Sanctuary, and Travel.
100TPC, 2017 / Stand with us now for Peace, Sustainability and Social Justice
Originally posted on The BeZine:
This year, the last Saturday of September, the regular day for the Global 100,000 Poets for Change Events around the world, falls on Yom Kippur, considered the Holiest day of the Jewish religion. Observant Jews around the world are fasting, having spent the…
Letter, Café, Ledges | Three Poems by Michael E. Stone
Michael Stone takes us from memory through observation to hope—three poems on Meta/ Phor(e) /Play.
Three poems | Karen Alkalay-Gut
Three poems from Karen Alkalay-Gut: What I need, I am a connoisseur of insomnia, and Avishag Speaks.
A Shock Of Gold | Paul Brookes
Three poems about Barnsley from Paul Brookes—A Shock of Gold, Buried Treasure, and “Abandoned Workings.”
Girdle and Mirror | Kinga Fabó | translated by George Szirtes
Two poems by Hungarian poet Kinga Fabó, translated into English by George Szirtes, with the original Hungarian.
Selections from Hourglass Studies | Krysia Jopek
Three selected excerpts from Krysia Jopek’s Hourglass Studies, forthcoming from Crisis Chronicles Press.
[sorties]: a collage in parts plumb | gary lundy
Six poems by gary lundy—through sights and sounds into observations close and deep.
Meta/ Phor(e) /Play 