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.
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.
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.
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.
July
Salanda
by Ruby Carlino. This joyous poem celebrates a traditional singer
from a houseboat colony in the southern Philippines.
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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