Ink | Alan Inman

A swell of bursting black spill I can use it to spell my name suss out my fate or smell my doom I can twist this ink so that it draws a portrait of my best side. The post Ink | Alan Inman appeared first on Best Poetry. Go to Source Author: Best Poetry Online

Migrant | Ananya S. Guha

Born 1957, 18th February, Shillong India. Welsh Mission Hospital. The eyes blue, so blue like a British exclaimed the doctor. A hundred years after the mutiny. Mother came from Mymensing, now in Bangladesh. A migrant with no stories of bloodshed, only that of one humanity. Hindu/Muslim. Now a migrant, I search for those living roots,…

Violoncello [Dovid Hofshteyn – Trans. by Lera Auerbach]

Dovid Hofshteyn (1889-1952) left Russia during the years of war and revolution and was a pioneer of modernist literature in Yiddish after the First World War. He returned to the USSR in the mid-1920s and became involved in Soviet cultural activities in Yiddish. Like other Yiddish writers, Hofshteyn participated in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. In…

Violoncello [Dovid Hofshteyn – Trans. by Lera Auerbach]

Dovid Hofshteyn (1889-1952) left Russia during the years of war and revolution and was a pioneer of modernist literature in Yiddish after the First World War. He returned to the USSR in the mid-1920s and became involved in Soviet cultural activities in Yiddish. Like other Yiddish writers, Hofshteyn participated in the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee. In…