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| 2003 |
Archived Articles |
| December |
Exile
by Ellen Zunon. Leaving an overseas culture and coming "home" can leave you wondering just where home is, particularly when you're a teenager and just forging your identity. Poet Ellen Zunon imagines what her daughter's thoughts might be in her pensive poem. |
| August |
Companion
by Karintha Hemenway. Is the role of "accompanying spouse" a satisfying
one? Karintha Hemenway explores this vexing question. |
| July |
Zakros,
Crete 1991 by Jeanne Higgs. It's not easy to capture your feelings
about the people you meet in another country, but Jeanne Higgs' poem,
Zakros, Crete 1991, finds a way with its percussive and musical language.
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| March |
Coatl
by Mary Ellen Sanger. Poet Mary Ellen Sanger, who lives in Oaxaca,
Mexico, beautifully captures the strange sparks that fly when one
culture meets another. |
| 2001 |
Archived Articles |
| September |
A
Gathering at Ballsbridge by Eddie Barclay. This poem has captured
an unexpected and elegaic gesture of condolence which took place in
Dublin, Ireland, on September 14. |
| April |
Three
Poems from Ireland, 1995. A.R. Smith illuminates the expatriate
experience, the true "point of travelling" and an Irish
legend.
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| 2000 |
Archived Articles |
| September |
For a Child in Point Pedro
by Ruby Carlino. A photo of a mother carrying her one-armed child
through a war zone inspired this moving poem.
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| August |
Leaving
the Country by Patricia Linderman. If an overseas assignment can
be compared to a separate lifetime, then leaving is a kind of dying,
as this poem points out.
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| July |
Salanda
by Ruby Carlino. This joyous poem celebrates a traditional singer
from a houseboat colony in the southern Philippines.
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| June |
Wimbledon Seasons by Linda
Bell. In this poem, the Wimbledon games become an unusual but effective
marker of time, through life's twists, turns and tragedies. |
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