October's issue of PIW

October's issue features poets from Colombia, the Netherlands and Japan. Oppression seems to be the main theme of this month's issue. Colombian poets León Gil, Eva Durán, Juan Diego Tamayo and Jairo Guzmán seek refuge in visionary mysticism when faced with a country beset by violence and corruption. Dutch poet Hanny Michaelis lost both her parents in the holocaust and writes elegantly of a difficult life. From Japan we feature the wonderful Kiyoko Nagase who determinedly wrote poetry in a society in which her domestic duties were paramount.
 
To read the editorial visit www.poetryinternational.org


Featured poets:
 
Colombia

Eva Durán

Jairo Guzmán

Juan Diego Tamayo

León Gil

Japan

Kiyoko Nagase

The Netherlands

Hanny Michaelis

Related Articles:

Japan
Poetry as Love, a reading of Kiyoko Nagase

The Netherlands

Hanny Michaelis at the Poetry International festival 2003

New audio files:

Festival recordings from
Mourid Barghouti
Valzhyna Mort
Vera Pavlova
Jacques Roubaud
Piotr Sommer
Matthew Sweeney
George Szirtes



Poem of the Week

MAPPING THE INTERIOR
Eugene O'Connell


Clip of the Month

BELARUSIAN I (poetry clip)
Valzhyna Mort


Newslog

Sep 29, 2009
Paul Laurence Dunbar: African-American poet remembered
Sep 28, 2009
Poets House in NYC moves location