re:Virals 546
Uma Padmanabhan - loosening the strings: commentaries on " puppet theater/someone calls me by/my childhood nickname" by Cezar Ciobica
re:Virals 545
Jonathan Epstein — listen to the grace notes: comments on "memorial bench. . . / she shares her chit-chat / with the pigeons" by Annie Wilson
re:Virals 544
David Cox—the genie is out of the bottle:enlightenment! Commentaries on "speechless this evening I'm a lamp" by Ella Aboutboul
re:Virals 543
Yibo Xu—the reader's own awareness: commentaries on "kuma in a coma in a cave" by Roberta Beach Jacobson
re:Virals 542
Orense Nicod—poetry as witness: commentaries on "TWIN CITIES / NO(T)ICE" by Petra Schmidt
re:Virals 541-1
Supplementary essay by Orense Nicod based on this week's verse: "Show me the sutra / In which the Buddha praises / The colors of beer." by Barry Foy
re:Virals 541
Dan Campbell—wisdom without ceremony, with a smile: commentaries on "Show me the sutra / In which the Buddha praises / The colors of beer." by Barry Foy
re:Virals 540
Ashoka Weerakkody —haunting us in cyberspace: commentaries on "the box to check / that I'm not a robot— / winter rain by Cherie Hunter Day
re:Virals 539
Orense Nicod—an embodied sense of duration: commentaries on "still attached / to the old days / a watch on a chain" by Ernest Wit
re:Virals 538
Sean Murphy—listening to the whales: commentaries on "whale songs . . . / when did we stop / talking" by Bud Cole
re:Virals 537
Orense Nicod—not knowing the answers: commentaries on "my wife left me / does this heavy rain at dusk / fall where she is" by Jerry Gill
re:Virals 536
Richard Straw—isn’t a poem itself a song? Commentaries on "Grasshoppers… / I can’t run or jump / anymore" by Satoru Kanematsu
re:Virals 534
Urszula Marciniak —learning a new language: commentaries on "distant stars— / the refugee mother rewrites / her lullaby by Hifsa Ashraf
re:Virals 533
Sudha Devi Nayak—an evocative medley: commentaries on "low slung sky / the rain hanging / by a hundred prayers" by Anju Kishore
re:Virals 532
Shalini Pattabiraman and language games: commentaries on "her child answers / in the nanny's tongue / end of summer" by Roland Packer
re:Virals 531
Ashoka Weerakkody—that unfulfilled desire: commentaries on "sailboats / or just seagulls / far away" by Mirela Brailean
re:Virals 530
Urzula Marciniak—to understand the world by giving names: commentaries on "first petrichor after learning the word petrichor" by Saumya Bansal
re:Virals 529
Sean Murphy—the tone of the piece: commentaries on "a bit of Mozart / among beeps and buzzes / of the MRI" by Tim Dwyer
re:Virals 528
Dan Campbell -- a garland of blooms commentaries on: prom queent/the short reign/of primrose