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Wyrd Words: Personal Reflections On the Art of Horror (Part X) β€” Grandfather Hu

DARK SONGS AND THE SOUND OF IRRATIONALITY     Storytelling is an act of translation that tasks the artist with ferrying meaning across cultural chasms to far embankments where attentive recipients can be bestowed insights into…...

Curved and Other Poems β€” Guido Cupani

TRANSLATED FROM THE ITALIAN BY PATRICK WILLIAMSON   CurvedΒ  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β …...

Love in the Time of Typhoid or the Sprite that Loved the Fisherman β€” K. Rekha

TRANSLATED FROM THE MALAYALAM BY K. M. AJIR KUTTY   LOVE IN THE TIME OF TYPHOID or THE SPRITE THAT LOVED THE FISHERMAN - K. REKHAΒ  Translated from the Malayalam by K.M. Ajir Kutty As…...

Some Words about Poetry: A Conversation with Hélène Dorion — Marilou Brousseau

ABRIDGED FROM HΓ‰LÈNE DORION’S INTERVIEW WITH MARILOU BROUSSEAU FOR THE PROGRAMME AU COEUR DE Lβ€™ΓŠTRE, RADIO VM, ON 21 OCTOBER, 2021     Marilou Brousseau: How did this writing adventure begin for you? What triggered…...

Horizons and Other Poems — Hélène Dorion

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY PATRICK WILLIAMSON Horizons All the light you need, allthe shade you need to be trueto yourself, to be free, you think so, be trueinsofar as that still meanssomething, today when…...

Tempting Fate β€” Jean FrΓ©mon

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY JOHN TAYLOR TEMPTING FATE - Jean FrΓ©mon Translated from the French by John Taylor Francis the first of…...

Sita of Bandhavgarh β€” Indira Dangi

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY ANURADHA DOSAD   SITA OF BANDHAVGARH - INDIRA DANGIΒ  Translated from the Hindi by Anuradha Dosad The residents of Madhya Pradesh are no strangers to forests and…...

Wyrd Words: Personal Reflections On the Art of Horror (Part IX) β€” Grandfather Hu

TRANSLATING A FEMINIST TWIST INTO THE MURDER BALLAD   The modern murder ballad is a medieval inheritance, a contemporary translation of an old form of minstrelsy that titillated tavern patrons with poetically enhanced accounts of…...

Conversation with Poet Nimrodβ€” Patrick Williamson

INTERVIEWED BY PATRICK WILLIAMSON     Patrick Williamson: What themes or ideas do you explore in your poetry? How do your personal experiences or beliefs influence your writing? Nimrod: I only write about…...