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Derek Walcott, a wonderful poet Nobel Prize in Literature
THE SEA IS HISTORY Where are your monuments, your battles, martyrs? Where is your tribal memory? Sirs, in that gray vault. The sea. The...
Emily Dickinson's Poem
Dare you see a Soul at the white Heat? Then crouch within the door - Red - is the Fire's common tint - But when the vivid Ore Has...
CENTUM PRESS
The two volumes of the short fiction anthologies arrived by post yesterday. What a surprise! As I opened the cardboard box, I was...
Translating Poetry
Translating a poem resembles reading a poem. When we read a poem, we enter the poet's world like diving under the sea to observe the...
MICROCOSM
Honoured to have two poems published in Tuck Magazine today. 'Microcosm' and 'Delight': #Poetry by Emily Bilman Tuck Magazine ...
An Ekphrastic Sonnet translated by Dmitry Bobyshev
DANAË The painter juxtaposed a yellow serpentine Curve next to a gold-streaked olive impasto To evoke the god in her womb. Like a sower...
MY POETRY BROADCAST IN NEW YORK
2017 brought me the good news of my poetry broadcast by Bshani Radio in New York. My poems were read by my editor Melinda Cochrane from...
Geneva Stanza Meeting
Two weeks ago, we had a Stanza Meeting with local poets in which we read, discussed, and critiqued our poems. We spoke about the...
A Review of "Resilience"
Emily Bilman's latest collection, "Resilience" carries an original voice instructed by literature and life. Her lexicon brims with...
from The Triumph of Love
XXXV Even now, I tell myself, there is a language to which I might speak and which would rightly hear me; responding with eloquence; in...