Selected Poems

Bert Stern

AMERICA There was a bird I liked, its name was I don’t remember. It skimmed the waves a day from shore. My mother held my head up to the rail, I was too sick to stand. America, she said, this…

The Test of the Bow and Others

Thomas O’Grady

Remembering Michael Coleman / Before he faced the suitors in the hall, / He proved himself by plucking high-strung gut / Until it hummed a single note. So pure / ...

More Haiku

Raffael de Gruttola

a hawk glides / along the mountain ridge… / afternoon stillness / april morning /

Haiku

Raffael de Gruttola

Raffael de Gruttola is past President and Treasurer of the Haiku Society of America and one of the founding members of the Boston Haiku Society which is one of the oldest groups in the USA and Internationally. He has published …

Poems from the Chinese

David Hinton

Carrying a ch'in cased in green silk, a monk / descended from Eyebrow Mountain in the west. /

Word and Violin–Spoken Word Poems

Pireeni Sundaralingam with accompaniment by Colm O’Riain

These are the letters I leave behind me, / dull lines written for the censor's eye. / There are no stories here, only headlines, / statements of fact, shielding the truth. /