In this video created by Sampsonia Way magazine for Rattapallax, Yusef Komunyakaa describes his revision process, talks about the importance of silence in poetry, and dispenses advice for young poets. Sampsonia Way Interview by Elizabeth Hoover Video production and editing by Glen Wood Yusef Komunyakaa’s latest collection of poetry, The Chameleon Couch, inhabits many musics: the delicate hymn in... 

Poetry leaves a trail. Poems in a Bottle is an ongoing international correspondence between poets triggered by their readings of each other. On this issue: Virna Teixeira and Tracy E. Grinnell. Edited by Flávia Rocha Poems in a Bottle photo by Mattox Poetry leaves a trail. Poems in a Bottle is an ongoing international correspondence between poets triggered by their readings of each other. I quote... 

Virna Teixeira in InstanbulI am writing a new book of poems, called “Como suturar lembranças” (“How to Stitch Memories”). It is a collection of memories, perceptions, photograms, related to external events, experiences and geographical dislocations. I have also recently read and translated poems from E. Tracy Grinnell’s book “Some Clear Souvenir”. It occurred to me how in some way the...