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Travels & Journeys

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  • Poem

    poetry-magazineTrucking

    By Sasha Pearl
    I’m in Shartlesville
    Eating air-chilled wings in the sleeper cab
    I took the contract because the devil…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineStreet Food

    By Daniel Halpern
    The redolence of rose and new road.
    The attar of grass, recently cut.
    The fish-whiff of anchovy.
    The spinning…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineBevy of Crows

    By Whitney Koo
    Being a woman of multiple bags, I may not have anything.
    When portability really means lack of capacity…
  • Poem
    By Shereen Akhtar
    In our first house-let in London, she drew on the tablecloth to create
    a calligraphic feast. Our friends…
  • Poem
    By Bashō
    Translated By Lucien Stryk
    Wake, butterfly—
    it's late, we've miles
    to go together.
  • Poem
    By Xiao Yue Shan
    1
    listen carefully—there is land or there is water,
    and a time where
    you may mistake one for another.
    there…
  • Poem
    By Li-Young Lee
    I can hear in your voice
    you were born in one country
    and will die in another,  and where you live is where…
  • Poem
    By Martha Silano
    Is this the last time I’ll admire the guys
    in their neon-yellow slickers, guiding us
    to our parking spots…
  • Audio
    By Rüştü Onur
     
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineYolculuk

    By Rüştü Onur
    Ne evim var Tanrım ne bahçem
    Ne okyanusta kayığım
    Başım ananas kokan bulutlarda
    Ananas kokan sularda…
  • Poem

    poetry-magazineThe Journey

    By Rüştü Onur
    Translated By Ulaş Özgün & Hüseyin Alhas
    Oh God I have neither a house nor a garden
    Nor a boat in the ocean
    My head is in the pineapple-smelling…
  • Audio
    Audio Poem of the Day
    By Yvor Winters
  • Poem
    By William Butler Yeats
    I

    That is no country for old men. The young
    In one another's arms, birds in the trees,
    —Those dying generations—at their song,
    The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas,
    Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long
    Whatever is begotten, born, and dies.
    Caught in that sensual music...
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