We are thrilled to announce that “Only the Frozen Emphasis” by Jonathan Yungkans has been selected the winner of our “birds” poetry contest and will be published in the September …
Ten Windows records the desire to understand others’ poems I’ve felt transfixed and transformed by: “What is a good poem doing?” “How is it done?” “Why does it work?” I want …
We could argue that the ancient Egyptians were positively constrained by their hieroglyphic system of writing to express abstract qualities in a crudely physical way. Against such an interpretation, it …
And the only way he had ever found, the only code, the only language by which he could speak and be heard by other men, could communicate himself, was with …
What seems to me to be happening is that those people who were once colonized by the language are now rapidly remaking it, domesticating it, becoming more and more relaxed …
We are told that in translation there is no such thing as equivalence. Many times the translator reaches a fork in the translating road where they must make a choice …
To the Greeks, the word “character” first referred to the stamp upon a coin. By extension, man was the coin, and the character trait was the stamp imprinted upon him. …
The extraordinary thing we now know, thanks to Crick and Watson’s discovery of DNA and the decoding of the human and other genomes, is that all life, everything, all the …
Imagine for a moment a world without the color green. What a sad place! What does green mean to us? The modern English word green is derived from the same …
People who have lost relationships often wonder why they can’t just let it be “water under the bridge.” It is water under the bridge – the trouble is we do not live on …
