Rae Armantrout Interview
INTERVIEW – Better Than The Times Rae Armantrrout Rae Armantrout Interview Questions First, it is an honor to interview you again. The last time, in 2018, you had just published…
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4/30/24 – 7/31/24
Interview
Palestinian Poems
Four Poems by Marwan Makhoul translated by Raphael Cohen
MARWAN MAKHOUL – Maalot Tarshiha, North District, Israel Marwan Makhoul An Arab at Ben Gurion Airport I’m an Arab! I shouted, at the doorway to departures, short-cutting the woman soldier’s…
Interview Poems
Poems by Rae Armantrout
RAE ARMANTROUT – California, USA PREPAREDNESS Animals find us eerie.We can see what’s coming in broad strokes– washed out,frequently displaced. Still, it smites us. Like ghosts we pass back and…
Egyptian Poem
Three Poems by AMIRAH AL WASSIF
AMIRAH AL WASSIF – Egypt After my dad’s funeral After my dad’s funeral, I wore his clothesI still remember how terrible my relatives and neighbors stared at me.First, they whispered…
Editors Picks
There is Fire in that Coffee Cup
ANTHONY WATKINS – Review, Coffee Cup, Pensacola, FL, USA Its Sunday morning, 10 am. There is a tall lanky guy in his 40s is wiping down tables, bussing dirty dishes…
Better Than The Times – We Are Live!
Better Than The Times – We Are Live! Betterthanthetimes.com The premier issue features: An interview with and several recent poems by the truly great Rae Armantrout, Several poems by the…
Abounding Freedom
Review – ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA Julien Gracq – translated from French by Alice Yang WORLD POETRY 2024 As a lifelong poet (I started writing poetry before I…
Three Poems by
STEVE DENEHAN – Kildare, IRE Graffiti It is not the lightsthe buildings, the peoplethat I look atbut the graffition the tunnel wallsthe subway trains really movethe tunnels that contain themmade…
Luddite, a poem
SÉAMUS DUGGAN – Portarlington, Laois, IRE Luddite The boy signed off all services dropped his phone into the river and headed into the mountains where forest reigns. Dressed in clothes…
Gaza – Bombay Suture
SOPHIA NAZ – Glen Ellen, CA, USA What’s the warp and what the weftRunning through this weaving? -Kabir by the tongue where tomorrowand yesterday are one, call out juxtaposition of…
Poetry is a Shoebox
ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA Where I keep all the bits and pieces, the left overs, the saved parts the map of how to change the world. Of course…
A Second Look at A Christmas Carol
Political Review – ANTHONY WATKINS – Tallahassee, FL, USA As a youngster growing up in a conservative pro-capitalist home, as I emerged into a more progressive mindset, I thought of…
The Five Senses
PETER MLADINIC – Hobbs, NM, USA The Five Senses, a review of Resurrection River by Anthony Watkins. The University Press. Oxford Square-on-Thames, Alexandria. 2024. $11.00 paper. The five senses are…
Ötzi
DENNIS ANDREW S. AGUINALDO – Los Baños, Laguna, PH Our fingers trace in water what is mirroredfrom the writing on the wall.Suspended in ice, a man fallen orfalling in place…
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