I emphatically deny myself
from being reduced to body, desire, womb
even though She and the System cling to the contrary
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Carmen Beltrán was born in Logroño, Spain in 1981. She has her degree in humanities and is a member of the Asociación Cultural Planeta Clandestino (Underground Cultural Planet Association) as well as Ediciones del 4 de Agosto (August 4th Publications). She has collaborated with literary magazines such as Portales, Fábula y Bart and has published a book of poetry Prohibido jugar [Playing Prohibited] (CELYA, Salamanca, 2005) as well as several poems and short stories in different compilation books. She was the coordinator for the book La otra voz. Poesía femenina en La Rioja [The Other Voice. Feminine Poetry in La Rioja] (Ediciones del 4 de Agosto, 2005). Her poetry has also appeared in the anthology La verdadera historia de los hombres [The True Story of Men] (Eclipsados, Zaragoza, 2005). Currently she is the coordinator of the Aula Literaria de Logroño [The Literary Lecture Hall of Logroño] as well as the literary magazine Portales.


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Poem: The Moment the Two Worlds Meet by Sharon Olds from the poetry collection The Gold Cell

This poem starts with a very strong and distinct sentence that makes the reader curious.
“That’s the moment I always think of.”

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Read more here to see the translations from Spanish to English of the poems that Alfredo Trejos is reading.

Or you can read the Spanish transcriptions in MahMag Spanish HERE
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Laal is a band on a revolutionary mission. The communist Pakistani band Laal (meaning "Red" in Urdu) fuses modern rock with a traditional Eastern sound and blends revolutionary poetry into their songs. This video shows the song "Umeed-E-Sehr," or "hope of a new dawn."


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In the greyness
and drizzle of one despondent
dawn unstirred by harbingers
of sunbreak a vulture
perching high on broken
bones of a dead tree....
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Richard Poirier, a prolific and populist cultural critic who founded a literary journal, Raritan: A Quarterly Review, and who was a founder of Library of America, the nonprofit publisher of American classics, died in Manhattan on Saturday. He was 83.
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Let’s look for a different idea of art

of music, living, living together, reliving.............
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The harrowing winds of the morning
sweep through villages both
old and new.............
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Beyond the guitar
the blood is sketching out a violent music
and the singer's head is filled with holes
and with kisses that smell of death
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HE HAD BEGUN TO READ THE NOVEL a few days before. He had put it aside because of some urgent business
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Alejandro Mendez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1965.

41 years

I will stop myself there
to make a toast with the
strange
golem
of light
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With a few simple words he said
“I hope you're not tired my love”
And I was so happy that someone
understood my weariness
it felt like a sugar cube melting in my heart.

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I wore you
I wore you today
Like a raggedy coat
For the feel of how warm it used be
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Mashile won the 2006 Noma Award for her poetry collection, In a Ribbon of Rhythm.

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No! it's not like I am craving to be martyred nor do I have an itch to experience the injustice center of Evin prison. No! how can I say it? for example it was the day after Sohrab was martyred when my mom asked us to go to his mom's house to say our condolences
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