I wish I’d had a poem like “Mango” by Ellen van Neerven to write about in my matriculation English exam. Maybe, given my suburban Adelaide upbringing and lack of mangoes, I’d not have been able to respond to van Neerven’s poem either. I don’t think it would have occurred to me to

The writer of this beautiful poem is Diana Ferrus, of Khoisan descent just like Sarah Baartman.She wrote “A poem for Sarah Baartman” while studying in …

The Iroha (いろは) is a Japanese poem, probably written in the Heian era (794–1179). Originally the poem was attributed to the founder of the Shingon Esoteric sect of Buddhism in Japan, Kūkai, but more modern research has found the date of composition to be later in the Heian Period.

In Algernon Charles Swinburne’s 1866 poem Sapphics the term “lesbian” appears twice but capitalized both times after twice mentioning the island of Lesbos, and so could be construed to mean ‘from the island of Lesbos’.

“I tell you, someone will remember us, even in another time.” ~Sappho, Greek poet, teacher, and lesbian (c. 630 BCE)

25 Science Fiction Tanka and Kyoka Edited by Julie Bloss Kelsey and Susan Burch. Short-form science fiction poetry is largely uncharted space. Even in the universe of short poems, science fiction haiku — known as scifaiku — have received more attention than science fiction tanka.

Oh me! Oh life! of the questions of these recurring, Walt Whitman is America’s world poet—a latter-day successor to Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Shakespeare.

25 Tanka for ren (and Educators) Edited and with an Introduction by M. Kei. Tanka, waka, and kyoka are five line poetic forms originally from Japan.

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