Poetry

Quodlibet with Cardinals and A Letter to Serafin
2011 Vol. 3 No. 4 - Winter / Poetry

Quodlibet with Cardinals and A Letter to Serafin

Poetry by John Minczeski; introduced by John Guzlowski

The Best Five Places for Kissing in Warsaw
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 - Fall / Poetry

The Best Five Places for Kissing in Warsaw

Karen Kovacik directs the creative writing program at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Her books of poetry include Metropolis Burning, Beyond the Velvet Curtain, and Nixon and I.

Mrs. Noah
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 - Fall / Poetry

Mrs. Noah

Oriana, a former journalist and community college instructor, now teaches poetry workshops. Her awards include The New Letters Award, Felix Pollack Award, and a residency at Yaddo. Her poems, essays, and translations have been published in Poetry, Ploughshares, Best American Poetry 1992, New Letters, Nimrod, The Iowa Review, Quarterly West, Texas Review, Wisconsin Review, American Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Spoon River Review, and many other journals and anthologies.

Metropolis Burning
2011 Vol. 3 No. 3 - Fall / Poetry

Metropolis Burning

Karen Kovacik in Metropolis Burning interweaves the minute particulars of people’s lives.

What Paderewski Taught Me about Being
2011 Vol 3. No. 2 - Summer / Poetry

What Paderewski Taught Me about Being

Poet Kath Abela Wilson once wrote about “How I Fell In Love with Chopin.” This poem was written for the Paderewski-Chopin conference at Loyola University, Nov. 12, 2010 and read while accompanied by mathematician and flutist, Rick Wilson.

Poetry: Leonard Kress and Cecilia Woloch
2010 Vol. 2 No. 3 - Fall / Poetry

Poetry: Leonard Kress and Cecilia Woloch

Born in Toledo, Ohio in 1950, Leonard Kress grew up in and around Philadelphia and graduated from Temple University with a degree in Religious Studies. He also has an M.A. in English from the University of Illinois, Chicago, and M.F.A. from Columbia University in New York. His family was originally [...]

Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse [selected poems]
2010 Vol. 2 No.1 - Spring / Poetry

Chopin with Cherries: A Tribute in Verse [selected poems]

Part of our series of articles for the Year of Chopin – 2010.

Second Language Poems
Poetry

Second Language Poems

by John Guzlowski

Kitchen Polish

I can’t tell you about Kant
in Polish, or the Reformation,
or deconstruction

or why the Nazis moved east
before moving west,
or where I came from,

Poems in Transit
2009 - Spring / Poetry

Poems in Transit

2009 - Spring / Poetry

Poezja Naszego Wieku