Today is the 100th day of my Penpositive Reading Campaign and many more to go. I had started this campaign reading a poem of Mahmoud Darwish and yesterday I read one of Miron Biashowski. Over the past 99 days I read poems of poets from Italy, Hungary, america, china, japan, Germany, turkey, Spain, Russia and so on. Through their poems I was able to see life and … Continue reading 100 Days of Penpositive Reading Campaign
Johannes Bobrowski (originally Johannes Konrad Bernhard Bobrowski; April 9, 1917 – September 2, 1965) was a German lyric poet, narrative writer, adaptor and essayist. Bobrowski died as a result of a perforated appendix in East Berlin and was buried in the Friedrichshagen cemetery. Since 1992, the Foundation for Prussian Maritime Trade (Stiftung Preußische Seehandlung) has donated funds towards the Johannes Brobrowski Medal. https://youtube.com/watch?v=9PNb7nSDm3c Continue reading Day 90 of Penpositive Reading Campaign – ‘Midstream’ By German poet Johannes Bobrowski
Primo Michele Levi (31 July 1919 – 11 April 1987) was an Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and Holocaust survivor. He was the author of several books, novels, collections of short stories, essays, and poems. His best-known works include If This Is a Man (1947) (U.S.: Survival in Auschwitz), his account of the year he spent as a prisoner in the Auschwitz concentration camp in Nazi-occupied … Continue reading Day-89-Penpositive Reading Campaign-‘The Survivor’ By the Italian Poet Primo Levi
A drunk, embroiled, bleeding will that imposed itself on constellations, on the world’s secret, is blazing in my generation’s heart. Fettering the free, festive air, with a strict hand. The sun and the deeps are wheel horses on its farm. It is strange to be a woman, simple, domestic, feeble, in an insolent, violent generation, to be shy, weary, in a cold generation, a generation … Continue reading Day-88-Penpositive Reading Campaign-A Drunk, Embroiled Will; By the Israeli Poet Zelda
Zelda Schneersohn Mishkovsky (June 20, 1914 – April 30, 1984) widely known as Zelda, was an Israeli poet. She received three awards for her published works. Penai (Free Time), her first collection of poetry, was published in 1967. With its emotive and contemplative images drawn from the world of Jewish mysticism, Hasidism, and Russian fairy tales, this collection established her reputation in the literary world. … Continue reading Day-88-Penpositive Reading Campaign-A Drunk, Embroiled Will; By the Israeli Poet Zelda
Today on Penpositive Reading Campaign I read the poem ‘I Write Poetry Gentlemen’ by the spanish poet Gloria Fuertes. Gloria Fuertes (July 28, 1917 – November 27, 1998) was a Spanish poet and author of children’s literature. She was born in Madrid, Spain. Among her works for adults include Poeta de guardia (“Poet on Watch”), Sola en la sala (“Alone in the Room”), Historia de Gloria … Continue reading Day-87-Penpositive Reading Campaign-I Write Poetry Gentlemen; By the Spanish Poet Gloria Fuertes
I write poetry, gentlemen, I write poetry, but please don’t call me poetess; I swig my wine like the bricklayers do and I have an assistant who talks to herself. This world’s a strange place; things happen, gentlemen, that I don’t disclose; they build cases, for example, yet never build homes for the poor who can’t afford them. And old maids are always having it … Continue reading Day-87-Penpositive Reading Campaign-I Write Poetry Gentlemen; By the Spanish Poet Gloria Fuertes
Today on Penpositive Reading campaign I read the poem ‘Mississipi’ by the French poet Aimé Fernand David Césaire (26 June 1913 – 17 April 2008). Aime was a Francophone and French poet, author and politician from Martinique. He was “one of the founders of the négritude movement in Francophone literature” Aimé Césaire was born in Basse-Pointe, Martinique, in 1913. He considered himself of Igbo descent … Continue reading Day 86– PenPositive Reading Campaign – ‘Mississippi’ By French Poet from Martinique, Aime Cesaire
Too bad for you men who don’t notice that my eyes remember slings and black flags which murder with each blink of my Mississipi lashes Too bad for you men who do not see who do not see anything not even the gorgeous railway signals formed under my eyelids by the black and red discs of the coral snake that my munificence coils in my … Continue reading Day-86-Penpositive Reading Campaign-Mississippi By the French Poet Aime Cesaire
Julio Cortázar (August 26, 1914 – February 12, 1984), was an Argentine novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Known as one of the founders of the Latin American Boom, Cortázar influenced an entire generation of Spanish-speaking readers and writers in the Americas and Europe. He has been called both a “modern master of the short story” and, by Carlos Fuentes, “the Simón Bolívar of the … Continue reading Day 85– PenPositive Reading Campaign – ‘Return Trip’ by the Argentinian Novelist and short story writer Julio Cortazar
Vinod Narayan 