Ani Gjika Q&A recommends two poets
Ani Gjika talks about the work of two poets for Fishouse visitors to explore, Sara Peters and Gypsee Yo.
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Ani Gjika Q&A on the most pleasurable aspect of writing
Ani Gjika talks about what she finds to be the most pleasurable aspect of writing.
Ani Gjika Q&A on her first poem
Ani Gjika recalls the first poem she ever wrote.
Spring
i I’m surprised by purple crocuses on the way home and the farther I look the more they multiply a kind of secret reunion with family long lost, relatives whom I welcome in other forms because it’s Spring, and the weather is full of arrivals: I see you now, Grandfather – little storm gathering […]
The Winter of My Childhood
Before writing, before toys, I used to draw stars. Mami sat knitting me a sweater, advising from time to time how to make an angle. Politics on TV scratched at the screen. Babi listened carefully, his body stiff, upright. But I kept drawing, trying to perfect the stars. I saw a gold star […]
Portrait of a Couple on the Grass
on a photograph of George and Mary Oppen They have survived one another. The earth holds them the way it holds children: gladly and curiously affected. His silver head piles its years on her lap. His body seems borrowed, already an absence. Her right hand maps his temples, his forehead. What […]
Long Distance
The neighbors are fast asleep. A boat has been anchored at the edge of the mind. It won’t set sail. Not tonight. Not while you’re away. * Daylight arrives agog babbling like a matchmaker’s clogs running along cobble-stones. We say good morning even though you speak back to me from […]
Last Day
India runs away the moment I arrive but when I have to leave, it gathers at my feet — a monsoon that won’t let go, a capricious child. I remember dirt, red and soft like bodies of deer. Statues smile and frown in the temple. Drums so loud they beat a god […]