Two poems by one of the immortals, Emily Dickinson, on her birthday: The Brain, within its Groove Runs evenly—and true—…
Virgilio Piñera: “The Great Whore”
Virgilio Pinera The Great Whore for Oscar Hurtado When in 1937 my family arrived in Havana —one exodus…
On W. H. Auden’s Birthday
Hannah Arendt: “[H]e was blessed with that rare self-confidence which does not need admiration and the good opinion of others,…
Andres Rojas: “One”
My poem, a ripoff. Originally in Luna Luna Magazine (no longer available). ONE after Elizabeth Bishop Loss isn’t hard. It…
T.S. Eliot: “Journey of the Magi”
Published in 1927, five years after The Waste Land, it is a quiet sort of poem. It begins “A cold…
King of Kings: Shelley’s Best-Known Poem
From The Economist, “The Real Ozymandias,” a tremendous must-read: The origins of “Ozymandias” were humble: a playful contest with a…
Two Poems by Dulce Maria Loynaz
Fairly well known in Cuba prior to the 1959 Revolution, Loynaz stopped writing and publishing soon after. Her work underwent…
José Lezama Lima: “A Dark Prairie Requests My Presence”
Lezama Lima is perhaps Cuba’s most influential poet of the 20th Century. His surrealistic vision, along with complex syntax and…
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen: 18 March 1893 – 4 November 1918.
Is this not the greatest war poem ever written? Dulce et Decorum Est Wilfred Owen Bent double, like old beggars…
Virgilio Piñera: “The Great Whore”
This is possibly my favorite poem (“La Gran Puta”) by a 20th Century Cuban poet. It is not without (race…
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