The Poets Cafe

11/09/2023

The revolution says:
On Saturday nights, you chant
Against the right for your rights to be “right”
All should rise
Shout out loud, paint signs proud
Put it on display for all their eyes.

New poem by Jannah Berkley now live on the blog
Enjoy 👓

The revolution says: On Saturday nights, you chant Against the right for your rights to be “right”

07/08/2022

"Friends don’t break up, they slide away

Like glitter after a long night of

dancing carefree under the moonlight sky"

New poem by Laura Moreno Saraga up on the blog

Happy reading 👓

We forget the ones who were always there because we think they'll stay with us, always.

07/08/2022

"Downton Sulton sits on the bank of Bosphorus antiquity
between a garden and a pay-as-you-go WC.
With an entrance of regality in Hamptons white,
Aslan's ivory brother guards the ivory-esque door."

New poem by Jannah Berkley live on the blog

Happy reading 👓

Downton Sulton sits on the bank of Bosphorus antiquity

01/05/2022

"If you told me of a melancholy
so hard it made your teeth hurt—
of the night, your companion
(or an early dusk.)

Of how the city made you feel close
to your grandmother—
Dazzling, in the quiet"

Eva Fabian reflects on an undeniable feeling in her poem "melancholy" now live on the mag 👓

I’d tell you, then: That solidity of feeling; the ache in your very skull that’s just what it means to love.

28/04/2022

"This Shabbat, we stayed in Cashmere, Krakow, once a beautiful and thriving Jewish neighborhood where now the synagogues are museums and art galleries."

Read a page from Netanya Çimone's 2008 diary as she reflects on her visit to Cashmere, Krakow during her Holocaust Memorial trip when she was 18.

When I was 18, I took a trip to Poland to explore the history of the Holocaust. Here's what I wrote in my Krakow Diary entry on October 31, 2008.

24/04/2022

“A kaleidoscope of faces.
Each, a thread
Tethered around the edges of who I am.”

Eva Fabian describes a moment in time in her poem, “wind” now live on the mag

Happy reading 👓

A kaleidoscope of faces.

02/03/2022

Get in the writing flow with Chillera, a Ukrainian three-piece band from Odesa. All proceeds from their Bandcamp will be donated to Ukrainian resistance: https://muscut.bandcamp.com/

Chillera, Live from Odesa:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2ydoJkZm9YrIrwyOeeJWJA?si=nhqrHMiNQCy3q4FWyZ4xtg&nd=1

Chillera · Album · 2021 · 2 songs.

06/02/2022

“Iris fades
Pupils wide
Hips swaying from side to side”

builds up the heat in her poem “rhythm roll” now live on the mag

https://thepoetscafe.ghost.io/rhythm-roll-art-club-tel-aviv-4-13-2019/

Happy reading 👓