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Today, 14 July, is Bastille Day, the day when in 1789 the good people of Paris, after breaking into the Hotel des Invalides where they gather 28000 rifles, hear (the rumor) that there’s gunpowder...

LIGHTNING You desertbe vasterlet a painful dustenvelop methe migrating dustthe birds have pushedtoward the tablet where violence residesBut now it burstsand delivers booksand dilutes itselfin all the veinsBe vasteryou whose place isthe perpetuity of...

A symposium of writers from ex-Yugoslavia met in Munich’s “Literaturhaus” last Friday & Saturday to think and talk about the Srebrenica anniversary. Today at least four German daily papers report extensively on the occasion,...

Today is the 10th anniversary of the worst case of European genocide since World War II: while the international community and U.N. peacekeepers looked on, Serb forces separated civilian Bosnian Muslim men from women...

“One never describes something that happened before the labor of writing, but really what is being produced… during this labor, in its very ‘present,’ and results not from the conflicts between the very vague...

An Israeli military sign in Arabic announcing the check-point is openfrom 7:40 to 8:00, 14:00 to 14:15, and 18:45-19:00, only 50 minutes a day Today, 9 July, is the first anniversary of the International...

From Clayton Eshleman, this morning, this poem: FOR GUSTAF SOBIN Radiating in my shroudI governed my matrixwandering Egyptian anima mundi,sensing in these parent powersa deeper larval plait. What was it to see then?As if...

from Girandole it’s how thescarf falls, andthe softbraided silverof the shoes… their signs!that sky! thenew un-declined night!whisper chases whisper, edgeits edges,as an arm swimstoward thecastbrass palmleavesof the light. * break, butwhere; shatter, awave, stillswelling,...

On Wednesday, in the church of the German town of Halberstadt, at an exactly predetermined moment moment, the officials pulled two pipes out of the organ — and the mode of the music changed....