From a Poor U.S. Parent
I, inadequate, have been your mother;
I have been your absent father;
I will make my ways straight
to be better for you.
I promise to return in love and peace;
I promise to rectify my errors,
remember your importance,
put y…
FIVE million Iraqi orphans, anti-corruption board reveals
Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Baghdad, Dec 15, 2008 (VOI) – Iraq’s anti-corruption board revealed on Saturday that there were five million Iraqi orphans as reported by official government statis…
Larissa Shmailo has been published inn Fulcrum, Rattapallax, Big Bridge, Drunken Boat, Naropa’s We, and many other publications. Her popular CDs, The No-Net World and Exorcism, have been heard on radio stations and Internet broadcasts. Larissa translated the Russian Futurist opera Victory over the Sun by A. Kruchenych; a DVD of the original English-language production is part of the collection of the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum, and the Hirsshorn Museum of the Smithsonian Institute. She recently contributed translations to the new anthology Contemporary Russian Poetry published by Dalkey Archive Press. Her chapbook is A Cure for Suicide from Cervena Barva Press and her new book is In Paran (BlazeVOX [books] 2009), available on Amazon. Larissa is listed in the Poetry Kit Who’s Who in poetry.
here is an invitation for a blooming friendship.
Boujema el Aoufi
Poet, translator and Moroccan writer
Website :
http://morocco.poetryinternationalweb.org/piw_cms/cms/cms_module/index.php?obj_id=3818