an interview with Peter Finch by lloyd robson Peter Finch in Budapest an interview with Peter Finch by lloyd robson Cardiff, 1947. Heavy snow on the ground. On the hill between the crass and the class, a babe is born. The parents name their boy-child Peter. Peter Finch. Little did they know their little Peter-Rock would not grow up to be a hard-drinking, hell-raising, movie star like his namesake,... 

Reinventing Armenia: Poetry after the Genocide, by Catherine Fletcher. Co-edited by Lola Koundakjian. Family (2008), by Hagop Hagopian, courtesy of the artist, http://www.hagopianart.com by Catherine Fletcher; poetry co-edited by Lola Koundakjian. The years from 1915 to 1921 were the turning point in modern Armenian history.  During 19th century Ottoman and Russian domination, Armenians experienced... 

Poems For Your Walkman: Translations from Marília Garcia’s 20 poemas para o seu walkman and Engano geográfico. By Hilary Kaplan. by Hilary Kaplan Translations from Marília Garcia’s 20 poemas para o seu walkman and Engano geográfico. By Hilary Kaplan. Image by Marília Garcia The poems in Marília Garcia’s 20 poemas para o seu walkman (20 Poems for Your Walkman) (2007) turn our everyday senses... 

An Interview with Christopher Merrill, by Rebecca McKay. An Interview with Christopher Merrill by Rebecca McKay I loved reading your new poems for the issue. Can you talk a little bit about your interest in the prose poem as a form? In the fall of 1989, which seems like a lifetime ago, I began to experiment with the prose poem, writing, sometimes automatically, the first draft of what by fits and... 

A Tent of Words: Meena Alexander, by Craig Epplin by Craig Epplin Meena Alexander opens her recent Poetics of Dislocation (2009) with these words: The new American poet thinks in many tongues, all of which flow into the English she uses: a language that blossoms for her. Places stick to her and with them histories, strands of local knowledge. She is aware of violence and warfare, she has experienced... 

The short story ‘In the Summer of Old Love’ by Sara Flood. With illustration by Amir Shahlan Amiruddin. Everyone­ was looking for love that summer, and no one could find it, and so people started doing the natural thing and going back to the poor fools who had loved them before. By Sara Flood Everyone­ was looking for love that summer, and no one could find it, and so people started... 

Introduction to Christopher Merrill, by Idra Novey. Christopher Merrill by Idra Novey I first met Christopher Merrill in India.  We’d both come to Calcutta as part of a U.S. Delegation of Writers to take part in one of the largest book festivals in Asia but which was cancelled at the last minute after we’d all arrived.   Our delegation took part in a number of readings and discussions... 

By Meena Alexander In April 2011, I visited Mamilla Cemetery. This ancient place of Muslim burial is being destroyed by the Israeli authorities in order to build a Museum of Tolerance I. She waits for me under a green almond tree Right in the middle of the cemetery In front of a broken stone marking a man’s death. Glyphs dissolve — her voice clarifies: Why are you here in Ma’man Allah... 

Audio Interview with Meena Alexander, by Flavia Rocha by Flavia Rocha On March 21, 2012, Meena Alexander graciously agreed to speak with Rattapallax about her trip to Palestine, the poetry that emerged from that trip, and about the public tasks of poetry in areas of conflict. What follows are excerpts from that conversation. Meena Alexander on her stay as poet in residence at Al-Quds University Audio...