Poetry 2015 2/4

Miguel Falquez-Certain -Colombia/USA-

Rhythmically, the sun kisses In quick waves, estuary Overflowing your waist, Sweet, feverish path Traversed in secrecy, Biting...

Michelle Yasmine Valladares –India/Kuwait/USA–

The Book of Trees How to tell chestnut from sycamore or rowan from beech or fir? Walking with my head buried in the book of trees, I...

Michele Karas -USA-

A native San Diegan, Michele Karas works as an associate copy director for a top-five U.S. book publisher and studies poetry in the MFA...

Maureen H. Altman -USA/Peru-

Your eyes Your eyes like breeze, lay crossing the road from the path of truth calling the morning for its glance… Eyes covering, eyes...

Matías Escalera Cordero -Spain-

One Hundred Times Dead (Each Day) Today I have died one hundred times on the bridges… (perhaps you don´t understand it?) One hundred...

Marta López-Luaces -Spain-

Diana Against your nature the solitude you believe in. Within you is an uninhabited plague that sorrow translates as distance. Return...

Marina Oroza -Spain-

Aura In reality that corner Is a quagmire of reincarnations Converted into mourning shrouds. In reality the shape of things Is a...

Marianela Medrano -Dominican Republic-

Medrano’s work also appears in literary magazines and academic journals such as Brooklyn Review (1995), Punto 7 Review (1996) Sisters of...

Margarita Drago -Argentina-

Hubo un tiempo Hubo otoños y mañanas grises y hojas secas en el patio arremolinadas por el viento hubo un parral generoso cada...

Luis Luna -Spain-

Flame´s learning It amazes you the heat, the uncertainty of the flame, the language of the smoke. Firelight proposes you/knowledges/that...

Linda Morales Caballero -Peru-

With LAIA, she created a yearly international literary contest and Anthology, and developed literary circles and creative writing...

Lilia Gutiérrez Riveros -Colombia-

Pocket Planet I survey the lengthening of a sigh And feel that we’re entitled To a world without garbage Smokeless and deprived of...

Lena Retamoso -Peru-

my poem is weariness weariness of being awake even in my deepest sleep of dragging the days without feeling their weight or their...

Jorge Paolantonio -Argentina-

He has published thirteen books of poems, most recently: Baus [2014] y En este duro oficio [anthology, 2015]. Paolantonio also has six...

Francisco Álvarez Koki -Spain-

Sonata to a Body Bathing in a Tub Like a vessel, the bathtub Rocked you in time, And I was your silence Across the water. Your...

Edgar Smith -Dominican Republic-

Parallelism While I write Someone agonizes Someone plants gardenias Someone unearths the bones of someone who wrote verses Someone...

Daniel Baruc -Dominican Republic-

V o z d e m a r… Voz de mar, en ti me reconozco húmedo de abismos. Salitre fue la huella en el principio y sol en las manos la...

Carlos Satizábal -Colombia-

Word Does perhaps the jaguar speaks to the lark? Does the saman tree to the murmuring stones of the river bed needs words to bury the...

Julio Marzán -Puerto Rico-

For Donald Trump Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out. –Robert Frost “Let’s raise this wall...

Juana Ramos –El Salvador–

Heredera De mi padre heredé una especie de disgusto por la vida y por los grupos de más de tres personas, la desconfianza de los días...