A valve opens. Electrode fluid enters your brain. You feel the whole Anthill inhale…and exhale. They tune their instruments.
Year 2089
Luis Othoniel Rosa, translated from the Spanish by Katie Marya
Luis Othoniel Rosa, translated from the Spanish by Katie Marya
A valve opens. Electrode fluid enters your brain. You feel the whole Anthill inhale…and exhale. They tune their instruments.
Madre A woman How many times we fled from the world, How long they burned our hands: Long we served the office of giving birth, cooking dinner, raising beasts. They relegated us to be trophies, in the halls of important men. We bit our tongues in the face of insults, we stayed our fists, before […]
Any response to the question, “What’s the matter with American poetry right now?” addresses, at least implicitly, the fate of language itself in society at the present time and the role of poets in cultivating and defending language. As guardians of the vigor of language, poets readily — and even stereotypically — express a weighty […]
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She stands proud with a smile that turns with every intentional twist of her wrists. The character at the center of her visual fairytale presentation, Sleeping Beauty is deceptively dramatic. At any given moment, Nathie Marbury offers unexpected moods and exciting delivery to children who will never forget the experience. They will not only learn […]
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