Alice in Wonderland: A Musical Porno
Throughout our first year of publishing, we’ve noticed a few folks have stumbled upon our journal Googling the oddest of phrases. We’d like to commemorate these Internet searchers with a poem, composed entirely and verbatim from their queries. Perhaps in CalJoPo, they found what they didn’t even know they were looking for. Alice...
An Evening with Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky
On a magical night among the Buddhas at Ilya Kaminsky read their own works of art for the 2011 Summer Salon Series curated by Agitprop Literary Arts co-curated by K. Lorraine Graham Our interview with Katie Farris Ilya Kaminsky’s website
Author Audio: Nikola Madzirov
Click on the links below to hear Nikola Madzirov read from his translated poetry collection, Remnants of Another Age, performed at San Diego State University, April 2011. Read our interview with Madzirov here. I Don’t Know Shadows Pass Us By Before We Were Born Usual Summer Nightfall When Someone Goes Away Everything That’s Been...
Harvard Review on Anne Carson & Catullus
As we pointed out in our review of Anne Carson’s Nox, the backbone of the book is a translation of an elegy written by Roman poet Catullus in the first century BC. Over at Harvard Review Online we found
Author Audio & Profile: Nikola Madzirov
From my father I learned to believe in doubt, and from communism I learned to doubt in believing. Recently, we interviewed Nikola Madzirov about his latest collection of poems translated from Macedonian into English, Remnants of Another Age. Read the interview here. We also had the chance to hear Madzirov read from Remnants. Click on...
Praise for Lucille Clifton’s “poem to my uterus”
Read more of Lucille Clifton’s poetry at Poets.org Find quotes by Lucille Clifton at goodreads
Paul Celan Revisited: Moving from Silence to Speech
In his famous “Meridian” speech Celan confessed that poetry is ultimately “an eternalization of nothing but mortality, and in vain.” The contradictions between silence and speech, between human consciousness and death are present in his poem “Chanson of a Lady in the Shade.” One of Celan’s earlier poems, “Chanson of a Lady in the...
How to Speak American: Heather McHugh’s “Language Lesson 1976″
This is an analysis of Heather McHugh’s poem, “Language Lesson 1976.” You can read the entire poem McHugh and her work on the Poetry Foundation
