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Reading: Nocturnal Sailing by Mario Wirz

Mario Wirz (1956-2013) was a German poet and writer who started his career as theater actor and director. I read a poem in a translation by Renate Latimer: the wind in your dream swells the curtains into a sail tears asunder all the things we have collected in the fearful light of the bedside lamp ...

8 September, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, love, Mario Wirz, sailing

Poetry

Reading: Sudden Movements by Bob Hicok

Bob Hicok (1960) is a poet from Michigan who writes accessible and meditative poetry. He currently teaches creative writing at Purdue University. My father's head has become a mystery to him. We finally have something in common. When he moves his head his eyes get big as roses filled with the commotion of spring. Not ...

22 August, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Bob Hicok, father, illness, love

Poetry

Reading: Carson McCullers by Charles Bukowski

Charles Bukowski (1920-1994) was a

18 August, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Bukowski, death, McCuller

Poetry

The Pleasures of an Ordinary Life by Judith Viorst

Judith Viorst (b. 1931) is among other things an American writer and psychoanalysis researcher. She is known for her children's books and witty poetry. I read a sober summary of the pleasures of an ordinary life: I've had my share of necessary losses, Of dreams I know no longer can come true. I'm done now ...

8 August, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Judith Viorst, life

Poetry

Reading: Fatherland by Mansur Rajih

Mansur Rajih (b. 1958) is a Norwegian poet and is

5 August, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Yemen

Poetry

Reading: Blackberry Picking by Seamus Heaney

Seamus

3 August, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, fruit, Seamus Heaney

Poetry

Reading: In Jerusalem by Mahmoud Darwish

Today I read a poem by

24 July, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Jerusalem, Mahmoud Darwish

Poetry

Reading: Lost Love by Gregory Djanikian

Gregory

9 July, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Gregory Djanikian, love

Poetry

Reading: Between the Sultan and His Statue by Yusuf al-Saigh

Yusuf al-Saigh (1933-2006) was an Iraqi poet who has published poetry since the 1950s. He also worked as an illustrator and painter. I read a short verse that nicely renders the working of symbolic authority: Between the Sultan and His Statue A wily sculptor Cut several pounds off the sultan’s figure And added several pounds ...

7 July, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, autority, Iraq, Yusuf al-Saigh

Poetry

Reading: Eating Together by Li-Young Lee

29 June, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, death, eating, father, Li-Young Lee

Poetry

Reading: Currying the Fallow-Colored Horse by Lucie Brock-Broido

28 June, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Lucie Brock-Broido

Poetry

Reading: Dusk by Rae Armantrout

Rae Armantrout (b. 1947) is one of the founding members of the West Coast group of Language poets (Natural History'. Dusk spider on the cold expanse of glass, three stories high rests intently and so purely alone. I’m not like that! I am looking at the spider from the inside of a building. At least, ...

23 June, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, dusk, language poem, Rae Armantrout

Poetry

Reading: Lines on my face by J.D. McClatchy

22 June, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, face, J.D. McClatchy

Poetry

Reading: Wedding by Alice Oswald

tack to tack, it’s like a swallowtail and when the swallow flies it’s like a coat; and if the coat is yours, it has a tear like a wide mouth and when the mouth begins to draw the wind, it’s like a trumpeter and when the trumpet blows, it blows like millions… and this, my love, ...

20 June, 2018

Kamiel Choi

Alice Oswald, anthology, sonnet, Wedding

Poetry

Reading: The Hug by Thom Gunn

Thom

5 June, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, hug, love, Thom Gunn

Poetry

Reading: Death of a friend by Rob van Moppes

Rob van Moppes (b. 1948) is a Dutch writer. I am his friend on social media and discovered this tender song-like poem today, so I decided to include it in my series. Death of a friend We met only two years before. Eyes sparkled when she spoke. We talked about the masks we wore, Considered ...

2 June, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, death, love, suicide

Poetry

Reading: Of Darker Ceremonies by Phillip B. Williams

Phillip B.

24 May, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, hip hop, Phillip B. Williams

Poetry

Reading: Green Grapes by Yuk-Sa Lee

Yi Korean original: 청포도(靑葡萄) - 이육사 내 고장 칠월은 청포도가 익어 가는 시절. 이 마을 전설이 주저리주저리 열리고 먼 데 하늘이 꿈꾸며 알알이 들어와 박혀, 하늘 밑 푸른 바다가 가슴을 열고 흰 돛 단 배가 곱게 밀려서 오면, 내가 바라는 손님은 고달픈 몸으로 청포(靑袍)를 입고 찾아온다고 했으니, 내 그를 맞아 이 포도를 따 먹으면 두 ...

21 May, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, grapes, Yuk-Sa Lee

Poetry

Reading: So Little Depends by Miguel-Manso

website of Poetry International. So Little Depends you prefer the corner, the hidden place the foliage, the shadow, the room, this sack of wheat: textual gold spread out on the old secretaire of the real outside the blaze of the wood the quick glazing of the fields here inside, less leeway – another panorama: simply ...

19 May, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Miguel Manso

Poetry

Reading: The Daughter by Carmen Giménez Smith

15 May, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Carmen Giménez Smith, daughter

Poetry

Reading: On Seeing A Watermelon by Monika Kumar

Monka

12 May, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Hindi, love, Monika Kumar

Poetry

Reading: The Wreck by Don Paterson

Don

9 May, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Don Paterson, love, wreck

Poetry

Reading: First Memory by Louise Gluck

Louise

7 May, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, childhood, father, Louise Gluck, love

Poetry

Reading: Lost Worlds by Giorgos Seferis

Giorgos

5 May, 2018

Kamiel Choi

anthology, Georgos Seferis

Poetry