C. Dale Young's Blog, page 18
April 15, 2017
“Skin Trade” by Reginald Shepherd
And then I said, That’s what it meansto testify: to sit in the locked dark mutteringwhen you...
April 14, 2017
“In the House of the Voice of Maria Callas” by Steve Orlen
In the house of the voice of Maria Callas We hear the baby’s cries, and the after-supper Rattle...
April 13, 2017
“Prayer” by Francisco X. Alarcon (translated from the Spanish by Francisco Aragón)
I want a godas my accomplicewho spends nightsin housesof ill reputeand gets up lateon Saturdaysa...
April 12, 2017
“Truth” by Gwendolyn Brooks
And if sun comesHow shall we greet him?Shall we not dread him,Shall we not fear himAfter so lengthy...
April 11, 2017
“Holy Sonnet XIV” by John Donne
Batter my heart, three-person’d God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to...
April 10, 2017
Announcing the 2017 Pulitzer Prizes
The winners of the Pulitzer Prize are:FICTION: Colson Whitehead for The Underground RailroadPOETRY:...
“Iskandariya” by Brigit Pegeen Kelly
It was not a scorpion I asked for, I asked for a fish, butmaybe God misheard my request, maybe God...
April 9, 2017
“Black Stone Over a White Stone” by César Vallejo (translated by Andrés Rojas)
PIEDRA NEGRA SOBRE UNA PIEDRA BLANCAMe moriré en París con aguacero,
un día del cual tengo ya el...
un día del cual tengo ya el...
April 8, 2017
“Digging”
by Seamus Heaney
Between my finger and my thumbThe squat pen rests; snug as a gun.Under my window, a clean rasping...
April 7, 2017
Congratulations to the 2017 Guggenheim Fellows in Poetry and Fiction!
POETRYMichelle Boisseau Victoria Chang Jennifer Grotz Matthea Harvey Ishion Hutchinson Davis McCombs...
