1960 – 2026 CE
Diverse voices, spoken word, confessional poetry, and new forms.
If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll f…
— Seamus Heaney
"If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way"
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"
What we call love is a journey through water and stars, through suffocating air
— Octavio Paz
"What we call love is a journey through water and stars, through suffocating air"
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"
Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape
"Visual surprise is natural in the Caribbean; it comes with the landscape"
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..."
To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to…
"To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ear..."
Walk on air against your better judgement
"Walk on air against your better judgement"
"If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excel..."
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 ..."
Deserve your dream
"Deserve your dream"
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition
"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition"
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