Bunches and Bits {Karina}, “Sepia,” November 2009
T. S. Eliot, in 1928, famously called Ezra Pound “the inventor of Chinese poetry for our time.”1 Eliot was referring to Pound’s renditions of fourt…
Renee M. Schell
February 21, 2017
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Artwork by Arya Gopi / Courtesy of the artist
The first word I ever spoke was not recorded in any baby book, captured on video, or celebrated with…
There is a kind of natural unraveling in Kiriti Sengupta’s poetry that, while complex, feels as effortless as the silence after separation:…
Patricio Ferrari and Nikola Madžirov. Photo by Peng Yu.
On April 17, 2025, I spoke with poet Nikola Madžirov at the New York Public Library’s…
I met Mahreen Sohail eight years ago when we shared a Tudor-style cottage at Yaddo, the artist residency in Saratoga Springs. When I asked her…
Mirza Alakbar Sabir and the first issue of Molla Nasreddin / Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
The satirist and poet Mirza Alakbar Sabir (…
