Reagan sitting with people from the Afghanistan Pakistan region in February 1983. Photograph Michael Evans, Public Domain by Phil Hall Because of the actions of Israel, which is a settler state founded in May 1948, in the same month, in fact, when Apartheid was formally instituted in South Africa, nearly everyone in the Arab…

Tophet Salambo Carthage Tunisie. Photograph Patrick Giraud Wikimedia Commons The scribe once more I am once again the standing scribewith a heart beginning to rustby decision of unreachable gods.I write like this and here simply, stubbornly,to breathe in the memory of some others,for in this brush or reed or pencil dwellthe chronicles, the crossings-out,…

Photograph Luis Aguiar Keynote Lecture Delivered at the “Third International Colloquium on Poetry and Philosophy: Sensibility is Thought,” coordinated by the Mexican writer Ulises Paniagua, with the support of various universities, cultural centers, publishing houses, and the Economic Culture Fund. “The philosopher thinks better than they write, and the writer writes better than they…

Photo by Nikhil Singh Rajput on Pexels.com Quite a few Rooi Baba flew towards Dabbo now and then, as she swung on the tyre, looking at the Madar plants growing along the side of her house, releasing cotton-like flowers into the air. She stretched her hands trying to catch them while swinging on the…

Photograph by Emmanuel Newton Part of you knew you’d end up here with Alec, with his tongue inside your mouth but part of you’d held out hope that you wouldn’t. You know this kind of thinking is naïve. That the dreams spooling from your head are snakes, and he’s in control of the ladders,…

Zorhan Anchevski. Photograph courtesy of the author ZORAN ANCHEVSKI (b. 1954) — poet, translator, essayist, and scholar — has published ten books of poems. His awards include: Studentski Zbor, for best first book of poems (1984); the international poetry award Giacomo Leopardi in Italy (2004), The Miladinov Brothers, the most prestigious national poetry award…

SUGANDHA DAS is a young poet who founded ‘Mildly Offensive Content’, in 2013, among India’s earliest performance-poetry collectives. With poets from around the world, they staged over 300 shows across the country and helped shape India’s spoken-word landscape. She has lived in far-flung areas of India, finding elegance and beauty in the remotest corners…

Senator Joseph McCarthy. Photo Credit, United Press – Library of Congress, Public Domain Bogie Versus the Committee by Norman B. Schwartz There is a common misconception that it was the malevolent Senator Joseph McCarthy who was responsible for destroying the careers and lives of many an actor, writer and director during the inglorious days of Hollywood…

David, with proud members of his family. Photograph Margaret Yip by David Yip After seven years living in Gran Canaria, I returned home with a couple of suitcases to live in Barrow. Once again, I sold everything I owned—from my car to my TV and even a full tropical fish tank. My younger sister,…

Renee Good, 26 seconds before the ICE agent shot her dead. Photograph Jonathan Ross – Alpha News, Public Domain R.I.P. | 1988-2026 by Sudeep Sen RENEE GOOD R.I.P. | 1988-2026 Minus one-degree centigrade    in the Himalayan Almora tonight — ICE predicted it would frost over.     I sit bundled in five layers of…