Poet Toi Derricotte shares two previously unpublished poems with our readers: “Stinkbugs” and “A Memory.” Derricotte is the author of five books of poetry and is co-founder of Cave Canem.
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Poems from acclaimed poet and Cave Canem co-founder Cornelius Eady: “Don’t Bum Out The Musicians,” “Toi,” and “My Niece Marie Explains Her Michael Jackson Project.” Also included, an audio clip of Eady reading “Coltrane’s House”.
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Three previously unpublished poems by Soheil Najm: “Adam the Neglected,” “Black Paradise,” and “The Bird of Possibility,” which Najm says are “part of a large project, telling aspects of the life we have lived in our region during the last decades.”
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Exclusive publication of four poems by the Georgian-born poet and essayists Irakli Kakabadze: “Penicillin Mini Opera,” “Information Highway Song,” “Condominium of Free Will,” and “Generation of Faithless Monks.”
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Three poems from Meena Kandasamy’s collection Ms. Militancy are presented to defy the recent persecution of writers like Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin in India. In Ms. Militancy Kandasamy retells Hindu and Tamil mythology through a feminist perspective.
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“Straying Far From Myself” is an apt theme for a time when Tibetan society is dramatically changing in the face of increased political violence, immigration, industrialization, and religious tensions.
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Three previously unpublished poems by Cave Canem founder Cornelius Eady: “‘I Believe I’ll Make A Change’: A Duet Between Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell”; “Father Frances at Mt. St. Alphonus”; and “Eisa Davis Sings.”
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Hind Shoufani is the author of two volumes of poetry, More Light Than Death Could Bear (2007) and Inkstains on the Edge of Light (2010). She was a featured poet at City of Asylum Pittsburgh’s annual Jazz Poetry Concert.
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Palestinain poet Hind Shoufani came to Pittsburgh to read at City of Asylum/Pittsburgh’s annual Jazz Poetry concert where she read “Pick me Up,” poem dedicated to Palestine, “who defies geography.”
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Two poems: Achilles’ Heel by Khin Aung Aye and The Sniper by Pandora. Both poets will be included in the upcoming anthology of Burmese poetry, Bones Will Crow.
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