Essay
By Diana Arterian
If you haven't begged for a kernel of time-earned wisdom while wet and half-naked, you haven’t lived.
By Cyrus Cassells
An imaginary conversation with Federico García Lorca.
Poem
From the magazine:To His Mother, Whose Name Was Maria
By Attilio Bertolucci
Translated By Cyrus Cassells
Invoked every sundown, it’s you, painted on clouds
rouging our treasured plain and all who walk it,
with leaf-fresh kids and women damp from traveling,
city-bound, in the radiance of a just-stopped shower;...
rouging our treasured plain and all who walk it,
with leaf-fresh kids and women damp from traveling,
city-bound, in the radiance of a just-stopped shower;...
Poem
From the magazine:To Jorge Luis Borges
By Sarina Romero
Jorge, no matter where we go together
there is always a great national myth bearing down.
The one I come from claims three thousand years
of history. The government funds artists to prove this....
there is always a great national myth bearing down.
The one I come from claims three thousand years
of history. The government funds artists to prove this....
Poem of the day
From blossoms comes
this brown paper bag of peaches
we bought from the boy...
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