“Plátano Purchasing Theory” by Malcolm Friend
On the occasion of a Giant Eagle employee double-checking to make sureI rang the right item up at...
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Tag: diaspora
I was envious of Anna Akhmatova. So I translated her poems, sort of.
Noah Berlatsky on envying other poets and also their translators, with an eye on the Jewish diaspora.
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miCRo: Three Poems by Akumbu Uche
In these poems, Uche masterfully captures the absurdity and isolation of diaspora in a giant urban space.
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miCRo: “Poem as Manananggal Always Looking for the Moon” by Albert Abonado
In Albert Abonado’s “Poem as Manananggal Always Looking for the Moon,” the mythical creature is reimagined as a poem that “arrives at night / its lower half hidden // on an empty school bus / or perhaps a sinkhole // the city ignored despite the petitions.”
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