Prose from Poetry Magazine
By Wang Ping
An Introduction to the folio.
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By River 瑩瑩 Dandelion
On memory, oral history, and honoring elders.
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By River 瑩瑩 Dandelion
On translating oral history into poetry.
Poem
By Mo Fei
Translated By Wang Ping
As if sweet olives blossomed again after the first Bailu frost, shadows
Talk, tiger tail grass talks,…
Talk, tiger tail grass talks,…
Poem
By River 瑩瑩 Dandelion
you had to know the currents, & the sun
stay shallow to keep warm in the waters.
you had to believe you…
stay shallow to keep warm in the waters.
you had to believe you…
Poem of the day
Weight of both reusable glass plus liquid means
my wrist twists down
the only direction it bends...
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That’s what poetry is: a wind, a leaf of grass that ties time and space
together.
I’m almost always lying
In a
In a
poem
I’m almost always lying
In a
In a
poem
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By bruno darío
Translated By Kit Schluter
After tonight, what’s left of you is you moving into my
dream
After tonight, what’s left of you is you moving into my
dream
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By Sarah Ghazal Ali
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By Paul Tran
Once I learned I could have the last word
I couldn’t stop having
I couldn’t stop having
it.
Once I learned I could have the last word
I couldn’t stop having
I couldn’t stop having
it.
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By Bhion Achimba
Poem
By Maxine Hong Kingston
Translated By Chun Yu
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