Poems about food -

http://www.saveur.com/article/blog/A-Feast-for-Bards-13-Favorite-Food-Poems

Chapter from Kyi May Kaung's She-monkey goes West in Crossconnect

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/volume1/issue2/word/fiction.html

The True Subject - poetry of Faiz Ahmad Faiz, translated by Naomi Lazard

http://www.cse.iitk.ac.in/users/amit/books/faiz-1988-true-subject-selected.html

The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

http://www.amazon.com/dp/0316219363#reader_0316219363

Chinese poet Fang Xianghai - "aiming his cock"

http://www.poetryinternationalweb.net/pi/site/poet/item/15379/Fang-Xianhai I aim myself at the urinal/ holding my breath/ but my prostate suddenly refuses to function/ they stand there behind me sizing things up/ leaning against a dirty white wall puffing away/ and in the buzz of the nicotine/ they're probably getting to grips with all the ins and outs of a teacher's cock/ that done, they signal their common knowledge with furtive laughter/

Poet Louise Gluck over 50 years

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-world-louise-glucks-poems-1962-2012/2012/12/27/c54fa088-4a02-11e2-ad54-580638ede391_story.html?hpid=z26

Quote of the Day - from H. Masud Taj in International Gallerie

Song of the Besieged by H. Masud Taj What can the door exclude When it stands without walls? Hinged on a displaced Axis of rotation, How shall the door turn?

Thanksgiving cranberries waiting to be jammed. Photo copyright Kyi May Kaung.

The Dawn of Freedom by renowned Pakistani poet - Faiz Ahmed Faiz -

THE DAWN OF FREEDOM:/ From ‘A Song for this Day’/ By Faiz Ahmed Faiz. Translated by Shoaib Hashmi/ This leprous brightness, this dawn which reeks of night/ This is not the one –– the long awaited morn/ This is not the shining light which beckoned/ Beckoned men ever onwards,/ To go on Seeking/ The final starry destination in the heavens/ The final edge where ends the endless night/ The final rest for the anguished heart/ When first we set out, urged on by young blood/ What temptations were there by the wayside/ From the restless abode of love and beauty/ The beckoning gestures of hands, the call of young bodies/ And above all else, the call of beauteous dawn./ From International Gallerie -/ just been invited to write an article for them./ "Met" FAF - as quoted in a novel by Salman Rushdie - I forget which one - either Shame - probably Shame - or Satanic Verses./ Faiz was so renowned he read poetry to thousands in football stadiums./ Kyi May Kaung/

In praise of their divorce, by Tony Hoagland

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/21768

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/152

Excerpt from Kyi May Kaung's She-Monkey goes West - The Golden Time -

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/xconnect/volume1/issue2/word/kmkgol.html This was a book length poem, still unpublished, which I should publish. Based on the Chinese folk novel Monkey. kmk