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- Not Painted, NYC, 1970’s
- By Margaret Wilmot
- Poetry • 1,950w • English
- A Hot January / March 2006
New York City. 14 evocative poems by Margaret Wilmot.
- Boy with Basketball
- Pick-up with Wings
- Spanish Onions
- That Strange Intimacy
- Painting
- August 1974
- Window-shopping at Tiffany’s
- Not Unpainted
- The Skewed Heart
- Minutes
- Chat with Hat
- Valentine
- Lifts
- Fire-escape
«In sneakers and singlet he smiles sprinting by.The narrow housefronts flush, grow warm.
Children on a stoop talk rules to a game, pointing out
sidewalk trees, which, thickly green, give off
a breath of summer, and day’s end. Lime-green
a woman slices over to the cafe, all glass, all reflection
as a red sun burns down to the horizon...»
Keys: sun, light, windows
- Truffles and other poems
- By Duane Locke
- Poetry • 940w • English
- A Hot January / March 2004
Five multicultural poems by Duane Locke, Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature and author 14 books.
- The gods never grieve over death,
or consider historical time to be correct - Two scholars of Chinese Seventeenth Century
K’ang-hst K’oou fragments sat at an Al Fresco Café - Tithonos and Eos
- Anchises to Aphrodite
- Truffles
«The stones in his mouth did not interfere with speech.It was a Grecian method for improved oratory...»
Keys: life
- Baba remembers and other poems
- By John Horváth Jr.
- Poetry • 697w • English
- A Hot January / September 1999
Second-wave immigrant, John Horváth Jr. writes from inside the sinner where events are experienced, history swells, and memory shields. We publish three poems from his early work.
- Baba remembers
- Baba Petra’s passage
- Hoosiertown portraits
«They wash their feetthey do their dance
so beautiful their dancing feet...»
Keys: feet, dance, beautiful, slaves
- The power of sight
- By Pedro Sevylla de Juana
- Poetry • 223w • English
- A Hot January / May 2009
Cornwall. A poem by Pedro Sevylla de Juana. Also available in Spanish.
«To livefrom a purely human point of view
is to sink gently into the sea of reality
and to swim till the weariness beneath the floating islands
fleeing from voracious fish and oceanic snakes...»
Keys: view, point, reality
- Argentina in the mind and other poems
- By Margaret Wilmot
- Poetry • 961w • English
- A Hot January / September 2004
The poetic hommage from Margaret Wilmot to Argentina. Also available in Spanish (translation by Livia Felce).
- Argentina in the mind
- Tribute to Juarroz
- Poem for Celita
- Gente bien
«Only the rust-flecked rowel remains,artifact of plains rich in dust...»
Keys: time, silver, love, mind, life, land
- Expectant and other poems
- By Laurence Overmire
- Poetry • 131w • English
- A Hot January / June 2003
Five poems by the actor/director/writer Laurence Overmire.
- Expectant
- Forgiveness
- How Old?
- Good and Bad
- Last Card
«We should have seen it comingThe future is not hard to predict...»
Keys: door, death
- Unabashed
- By Delos T. Brown
- Poetry • 147w • English
- A Hot January / June 2000
From San Francisco we receive the musical words of Delos T. Brown.
«in my kitchen you were sodeliciously beautiful,
dancingly handsomely teasingly
stunning...»
Keys: dance, kitchen, socks
- One, Great, Free
- By Tina Escaja
- Poetry • 197w • English
- A Hot January / November 2007
A hyperpoem by one of our first collaborators, Tina Escaja, with us again for our 12th anniversary. Translated from Spanish by Helen Wagg.
«One lie, a false identity that unites, a perverse partnership that constrains...»
Keys: lie, illusion, buttocks
- The disease of the Carolinas
- By Sam Silva
- Poetry • 83w • English
- A Hot January / September 2001
A poem by Sam Silva, a columnist and author who has been nominated seven times for the Pushcart Award.
«In a trailer beside the riverclustered by strange dreams
of wildflower and willow
my feet are stuck to this humid tar...»
Keys: feet, dreams
- High Walls and other poems
- By Duane Locke
- Poetry • 360w • English
- A Hot January / April 2000
Doctor of Philosophy in Renaissance Literature, Duane Locke is the author of these five poems. He has had over 5,000 poems published in over 500 print magazines and has written 14 books.
- High Walls
- Alone With Wine On The Gulf
- Oaks
- Meaning
- Admiration
«Flabbergasted by the guests, my enemies,The enemies have keys to the gate...»
Keys: hair, sea, dark
- Indifference to names and other poems
- By John Horváth Jr.
- Poetry • 1,891w • English
- A Hot January / February 2003
Six poems by John Horváth Jr. He writes:
Every poet knows foundations, the beginnings of things structured, formalized, captured. Poets build on these much as an internal decorator must build around re-existing structures. There is art in hiding the squares, the straight lined beams, the corners where spiders lurk. A poet’s empathy and sympathy render things observed more open to discussion, more human, and more dignified—less captured and unchanging. My technique is to revise a longhand sketch to traditional form/meter (not necessarily English); then, revise to “free” verse/lyric narrative. Thus, I explore. I distance myself from a subject because, as Plato noted, “Poetry endangers the established order of the soul.” Poetry must endanger; so, poets must use care.
- Bekah cathedral
- Foreman Ferenchaza
- Short steelmill life of Steven Seraphim Novanglus
- There must be dreams from which one cannot walk away
- Blue lioness
- Indifference to names
«“in nomine patri”She was conceived in a holy place.
Far from where she stands, architects
saw her before first stones were cut...»
Keys: dream, love, walk, time
- Song of the Sleepy Fellow and In Carolina Places
- By Sam Silva
- Poetry • 192w • English
- A Hot January / July 2004
Two poems by the columnist and author Sam Silva.
- Song of the Sleepy Fellow
- In Carolina Places
«Look down on what the Lord has made!Gaze on the valleys of the strong!
The mind craves dance
...thoughts along
the rhythm of a song afraid
and sung
by April, and her cross,
her flowers...»
Keys: mind, spring
- Sirens and other poems
- By Duane Locke
- Poetry • 398w • English
- A Hot January / December 2000
Five poems by Duane Locke.
- Sirens, sea gulls, mermaids, and other divinties
- Tandaradei
- Go home to your tutor, darkness
- Venus
- Stressa
«Sea girls with whole human bodies,Mermaids, human bodies above,
Fish bodies below, sing songs...»
Keys: light, song, sea
- Two Poems
- By Delos T. Brown
- Poetry • 243w • English
- A Hot January / October 2000
Two love poems by Delos T. Brown.
- Black Velvet Stillness
- Longing
«Surround mewith that black velvet stillness,
like when we dance so close...»
Keys: arms, skin, neck
- Green shoes and other poems
- By Duane Locke
- Poetry • 618w • English
- A Hot January / March 2003
Five poems by Duane Locke.
- The sound of the buffalo on the prairie
- Green shoes
- Haystacks and faces
- Conversations in car washes
- The cornet player
«The hoof printsOn
The
T-shirt...»
Keys: shoes, someone, shadow, price, dance
- Wild Fruit
- By Margaret Wilmot
- Poetry • 770w • English
- A Hot January / October 2005
A long poem by Margaret Wilmot.
«The wild fruit forests ofthe Ili Valley, where
a tangle of apples,
pears, plums, apricots and
other berrying trees,
like hawthorn and rowan,
hang on high slopes I see
in that geography
of the mind as sunlit
uplands...»
Keys: light, mission
- Real as Dreams
- By Margaret Wilmot
- Poetry • 2,113w • English
- A Hot January / November 2005
24 poems by Margaret Wilmot.
«Your roses in the copper bowlon the dining-room table, lemon yellow,
salmon, pink, all taking of
each other’s warmth to glow...»
Keys: roses, hills
- Painting from Life
- By Margaret Wilmot
- Poetry • 1,473w • English
- A Hot January / April 2006
Eight evocative poems by Margaret Wilmot.
«You left the crying baby, small apartment,walked down the hill to the train across the Bay...»
Keys: war, eyes, pain, light
- What is there and other poems
- By Margaret Wilmot
- Poetry • 1,143w • English
- A Hot January / December 2006
Ten 12-liners by Margaret Wilmot.
- A few dry stalks
- A red raspberry for Georgina
- Departure lounge: shades richer
- In the bus
- Life without boys
- Medea and the horses
- Rorschach Rothko
- Waiting for rosebuds
- What is there
- Words like fountains
«Not inside the sanctuary, nor even when the slopecurved round and I saw the temple ringed with peaks,
which at that early hour seemed to be lifting it...»
Keys: light, life
- A mysterious cat
- By Sam Silva
- Poetry • 153w • English
- A Hot January / January 2007
The author’s cat, a mystery like every cat. A poem by Sam Silva.
«Gypsy Rose curls under a tableon a screened-in porch
during a night when the rain is constant
and dim lights flicker like a torch...»
Keys: kittens, eye
- Stoking the Fire
- By Susan Abraham
- Poetry • 727w • English
- A Hot January / May 2008
Five poems by the Malaysian-Indian traveller and writer Susan Abraham.
- The Gossip and her Husband
- Hanging the Laundry
- The Dead Sea
- Old Age
- Warmth
«She was a pugnacious sort, a lizard tonguepreying on overtime. She tasted betrayals
for trifles and gossip fed candy into her body
parts, her soul measured eternity all wrong...»
Keys: toes, gossip
- The companionableness of men and other poems
- By Margaret Wilmot
- Poetry • 1,143w • English
- A Hot January / March 2007
A new collection of ten 12-liners by Margaret Wilmot.
- The companionableness of men
- East from Bishopsgate, 10 a.m.
- Ducks, geese
- Sweet coffee
- Marsyas
- Leaving Pangbourne
- Think of the flag
- With all our senses
- Light leaks
- Dusk on grey granite
«They talk football in the train, cite names,players’ moves, critical, appreciative; last night
there were no heroes, just the team. When I next
wake to their chat it’s mortgages, investment plans...»
Keys: coffee
- Poems of Exile
- By E. Murray
- Poetry • 787w • English
- A Hot January / July 1998
From the Argentinian living in Switzerland E. Murray, six poems. Translated from Spanish by the author.
- Je Fais Un Rêve / Dream Of French Love
- I Still Have 5 Francs / Poem On My Birthday
- She Read My Letter In The Living Room, Having A Coffee
- Dream-come-true
- And The Harmonica Remained Silent Too
- Come Back On Tuesday
«I shall write this poem until you get nakedand hold it
in the middle of the night laughing:
what am I doing here
undressed?...»
Keys: nothing, francs, silence, tuesday
This collection
A Hot January is a collection of contemporary poetry in English.
- Not Painted, NYC, 1970’s
- Truffles and other poems
- Baba remembers and other poems
- The power of sight
- Argentina in the mind and other poems
- Expectant and other poems
- Unabashed
- One, Great, Free
- The disease of the Carolinas
- High Walls and other poems
- Indifference to names and other poems
- Song of the Sleepy Fellow and In Carolina Places
- Sirens and other poems
- Two Poems
- Green shoes and other poems
- Wild Fruit
- Real as Dreams
- Painting from Life
- What is there and other poems
- A mysterious cat
- Stoking the Fire
- The companionableness of men and other poems
- Poems of Exile
Authors
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