1960 – 2026 CE
Diverse voices, spoken word, confessional poetry, and new forms.
"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excel..."
Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has love…
— Derek Walcott
"Give back your heart to itself, to the stranger who has loved you all your life"
Walk on air against your better judgement
— Seamus Heaney
"Walk on air against your better judgement"
History says, don't hope on this side of the grave, but then, once in a lifetime the longed-for tida…
"History says, don't hope on this side of the grave, but then, once in a lifetime..."
"The time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your ..."
Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is…
"Break a vase, and the love that reassembles the fragments is stronger than that ..."
Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests; snug as a gun
"Between my finger and my thumb the squat pen rests; snug as a gun"
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to…
— Octavio Paz
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ear..."
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape"
What we call love is a journey through water and stars, through suffocating air
"What we call love is a journey through water and stars, through suffocating air"
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition
"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition"
If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll f…
"If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way"
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