Category Archives: Poetry

Life by Daniel

… Life is a big book on whose edges we write down comments. … … …… … Daniel was a student of mine the summer of 2008. The night before I flew back to the States, I took Daniel and … Continue reading →

Singing Secrets: Interview with Bill Kushner: Questions

26 Sep ’10

… April 10th at the Chelsea Square. I have some questions to ask Bill sent to me by several poets and writers. There is a family eating at the next table chattering away happily. Although I fear Bill won’t be … Continue reading →

Bill Kushner reading My Sisters

25 Sep ’10

… … My Sisters So what’s love? I’d watch my 2 older sisters Spend hours in front of mirrors, doing things With their lips, incredible! they’d make Their faces look down this way, up that way & why? I’d hear … Continue reading →

Singing Secrets: Interview with Bill Kushner: Poetry

21 Sep ’10

… The following Saturday, March 20th, was sunny and wonderful. I spent the morning priming my study, hurrying to Janovic Plaza to order some paint, and got over to the Chelsea Square to talk with Bill who arrived looking very … Continue reading →

Singing Secrets: Interview with Bill Kushner: History

16 Sep ’10

… … I met Bill at the Chelsea Square Restaurant on March 13, 2010 at 3:30 in the afternoon. The day was a stormy downpour. The wind howled down the street first taking one umbrella from me and then the … Continue reading →

Bill Kushner reading Fiction

16 Sep ’10

… Here is Bill reading his poem “Fiction” from his book He Dreams Of Waters. … … Fiction If fiction is necessary what am I doing in this torn dress at this very bus stop he signs in a kind … Continue reading →

Bill Kushner reading Quack

11 Sep ’10

… Last Saturday, September 4, when the traffic got too noisy at Saint Mark’s, Bill and I walked a few blocks across 14th Street to Stuyvesant Park, on the west side of Second Avenue, sat down on a bench where … Continue reading →

A Mirror by Muhammad Izchi

28 Jul ’10

… This short poem was written summer of 2010 by Muhammad, a Muslim student of mine from western China. He is the first student at Wuhan I’ve ever had who wasn’t Hun Chinese. There are more foreign students on campus, … Continue reading →

You Are Beautiful by Di Wu

25 Jul ’10

Every country has its radicals, thank goodness, most within a stone’s throw, and if you look, you will find them, like the truth. Even radicals can be in love, and feel its pangs, and write about it. Di Wu … Continue reading →