Prathna Lor

Prathna Lor is a doctoral student of English at the University of Toronto.

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'The lip of a paragraph'

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Ira Joel Haber on Hannah Weiner

Charles Bernstein

from Ira Joel Haber on this 1970 poster:

Cecilia Vicuña: 'DISPROSODIES' or 'Saint Visions,' after 'TOCADAS' by Xul Solar

Cecilia Vicuña: 'DISPROSODIES'

Jerome Rothenberg

Of this beautifully complex poem Vicuña writes by way of introduction: “The piece comprises three poems and was commissioned by Lila Zemborain for the book-catalog of the exhibition ‘Xul Solar and Borges: The Art of Friendship’ at the Americas Society in New York, 2013.

Translated from Spanish by Christopher Winks

I write these lines on the day of Hurricane Sandy, the biggest storm in history, the beginning of the future, lashing Manhattan.

Hexagram 25 / Wu Wang / Innocence (The Unexpected)

Tbilisi: video of my reading and visit plus my translation of poems by Paata Shamugia

Charles Bernstein

Video from my visit to the Tbilisi International Festival of Literature intercuts my reading of “Thank You for Saying Thank You” with a translation by, and conversation with, Paata Shamugia. Thanks to festival director Nuka Gambashidze. Video from Indigo, Georgian literary magazine.