In this lesson, high school students write ‘I am’ poems in their home language and then translate them into English, building ...

Paul Celan, Memory Rose Into Threshold Speech: The Collected Earlier Poetry, A Bilingual Edition, translated by Pierre Joris and with commentary by Pierre Joris and Barbara Wiedemann, 2020 (image ...

For more than 40 years Charles Bernstein has been writing poetry that doesn’t always mean what it seems to be saying. It’s not simply that his work is often highly ironic, but that his uses of ...

Listen to a 9th century Irish poem in its original language Dr. Mark Harman recites the 9th century Irish poem 'Pangur Ban' (author unknown) in both Irish and an English translation. Dr. Mark Harman ...

W. S. Di Piero never wants to hear again that his poems are intense. “You get tired of hearing certain things if they get said so many times about the kind of work you do. I don’t write poems that are ...

Juneau-based poet Emily Wall has been working on a book of birth poems for six years. She collected birth stories from as many different people as she could, asking participants to recall specific ...

SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD Morio Hayashida stepped off the Japanese ship Shinyo Maru into San Pedro, California, in late 1921. Seven years later, while living in Los Angeles, he published a 220-page ...

This short video shows us three different American Sign Language poems – two of which are less than a minute long. They give us an idea of poetry that is entirely out of most mainstream experience, ...