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Dos Poemas por Gwendolyn MacEwen
La luz del sol en la esquina de Sherbourne y Bloor Ya muy tarde mi bicicleta me lleva a través de la ciudad. Me pregunto como nosotros amoldamos nuestras vidas, estos desórdenes brillantes, estos...
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Um boi vê os homens + No meio do caminho
Two poems by Carlos Drummond de Andrade Português: “Um boi vê os homens” Tão delicados (mais que um arbusto) e correm e correm de um para o outro lado, sempre esquecidos de alguma coisa....
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Δυνάμωσις + Κρυμμένα
“Growing in Spirit” He who hopes to grow in spirit will have to transcend obedience and respect. He will hold to some laws but he will mostly violate both law and custom, and go beyond the...
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Emily Dickinson: Two poems
After great pain, a formal feeling comes – The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs – The stiff Heart questions “was it He, that bore,” And “Yesterday, or Centuries before”? The Feet, mechanical, go...
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Briceida Cuevas Cob: Mayan poems
“In K’aba’” In k’abae, tikín ot’el, chi’il chi’ u chi’chi’al, u chá’acha’al tumén u dzay máako’ob. Dzok in pitik u nóok’il in k’aba’ je bix u podzikúbal kan tu xla sóol. ƑBaanten ma’ tan u yala...
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Reesom Haile: the Lively Voice of Eritrea / la Voz Vivaz de Eritrea
_____ * _____ * _____ KNOWLEDGE First the earth, then the plow: So knowledge comes out of knowledge. We know, we don’t know. We don’t know we know. We know we don’t know. We think This looks like...
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Peter Blue Cloud: Tales and Poems of Coyote
Peter Blue Cloud Coyote makes the First People Coyote stopped to drink at a big lake and saw his reflection. “Now there’s a really good-looking coyote,” he said, leaning farther over. And of...
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“Bright Horizon” by Ahmad Shamlu احمد شاملو
ZP_Untitled, Doves_painting by Skip Noah احمد شاملو Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000, Tehran, Iran) ZP_Doves of Peace Quartet by Asbjorn Lonvig Ahmad Shamlu (1925-2000, Tehran, Iran) “Bright Horizon” . Bright...
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Frida + Diego: poems, pictures / pinturas, poemas
Today in Toronto, at the Art Gallery of Ontario, a first-time-ever exhibition in Canada opens: “Frida and Diego: Passion, Politics and Painting”. Combining the divergent artworks of México’s famous...
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Love poems, Blues poems – from The Harlem Renaissance
ZP_Dance_by Aaron Douglas 1899-1979 Love poems, Blues poems – from The Harlem Renaissance: Langston Hughes verses composed between 1924 and 1930: . . . “Subway Face” . That I have been looking...
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“Viva y no pare” / “Live and don’t hold back”: Nicolás Guillén + el Yoruba de...
Z|P_Cabeza de piña por Eduardo Roca alias Choco_pintor cubano Nicolás Guillén (Cuba, 1902-1989) A poem from “ ‘Son’ Motifs ” (1930) “Go get some dough” . Get some silver, go get some dough for us! Cuz...
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“Orfeu Negro” and the origins of Samba + Wilson Batista’s “Kerchief around my...
ZP_poster for Orfeu Negro ZP_Breno Mello, 1931 – 2008, as Orpheus in the 1959 Marcel Camus film, Orfeu Negro_Mello was a soccer player whom Camus chanced to meet on the street in Rio de Janeiro. Camus...
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Poemas de amor en la lengua quechua – Juan Wallparrimachi, José David...
Poemas de amor quechua – del siglo IXX: Juan Wallparrimachi, José David Berríos, y unos poetas bolivianos anónimos . “Urpi” . Munakusqay urpi, uyaririllaway, sunquyta paqumaq munakapullaway. ....
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Sunqupa Harawinkuna / Poemas del Corazón en el idioma quechua por Kusi Paukar
Kusi Paukar (César Augusto Guardia Mayorga) Sonqup Jarawiinin / El Cantar del Corazón Sunqupa Harawinkuna / Poemas del Corazón Lima, Perú, 1961 Traducciones del idioma quechua: Jesús Lara “Waylluy” ....
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Ngày Quốc tế Phụ nữ : Thơ Việt Nam / Poems for International Women’s Day :...
Untitled_photograph © photographer An-My Lê, born 1960 Dieu Nhan (Buddhist nun, 1041-1113) “Birth, Old Age, Sickness, Death” . Birth, old age, sickness, death Are commonplace and natural. Should we...
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Mi’kmaw I am: Poems of Rita Joe + We are the Dreamers
ZP_Portrait of Rita Joe drawn by Tylesia Rita Joe (Mi’kmaw poet, 1932-2007, Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia, Canada) . “A Mi’kmaw Cure-All for Ingrown Toenail” . I have a comical story for ingrown toenail I...
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Alootook Ipellie: Artist, Writer, Dreamer !
ZP_The agony and the ecstasy_illustration for a short story in Arctic Dreams and Nightmares_Alootook Ipellie, 1993 Alootook Ipellie (1951-2007) “It Was Not ‘Jajai-ja-jiijaaa‘ Anymore – But ‘Amen’” . It...
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¿Eva, La Culpable? / Was IT All Eve’s Fault?
ZP_El Adán reconsiderado…¡Piense en él dos veces!_Adam reconsidered…Give him a second thought! . “No Eva…Solo era una cantidad excesiva del Amor, su Culpa.” (Aemilia Lanyer, poetisa inglés, 1569 –...
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Maria Bethânia canta letras de Carlos Bahr & Adriana Calcanhotto / Maria...
ZP_Maria Bethânia (born 1946), shown here at the age of 21, is a Brazilian singer and sister of Caetano Veloso . “Sin” / “Pecado” Composer / Compositor: Carlos Bahr (Tango lyricist / Letrista de...
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Gregory Porter: “Somos pintados sobre un lienzo ” / “Painted on canvases”
ZP_Romare Bearden (1911-1988)_Morning of the Rooster_1980 . Gregory Porter (Cantante/compositor de jazz, nacido en 1971, EE.UU.) “Somos pintados sobre un lienzo ” . Somos como niños Somos pintados...
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