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… Read More ›
Penpositive Reading Campaign
Day 90 of Penpositive Reading Campaign – ‘Midstream’ By German poet Johannes Bobrowski
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… Read More ›
Day-89-Penpositive Reading Campaign-‘The Survivor’ By the Italian Poet Primo Levi
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… Read More ›
Day-88-Penpositive Reading Campaign-A Drunk, Embroiled Will; By the Israeli Poet Zelda
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…. Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Day-87-Penpositive Reading Campaign-I Write Poetry Gentlemen; By the Spanish Poet Gloria Fuertes
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… Read More ›
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… Read More ›
Day 86– PenPositive Reading Campaign – ‘Mississippi’ By French Poet from Martinique, Aime Cesaire
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… Read More ›
Day-86-Penpositive Reading Campaign-Mississippi By the French Poet 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… Read More ›
Day 85– PenPositive Reading Campaign – ‘Return Trip’ by the Argentinian Novelist and short story writer Julio Cortazar
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… Read More ›
Vinod Narayan 