January 17, 2022January 18, 2022 edited by anders dahlgren

Gabrielle Brogan

Gabrielle Brogan is a freelance writer who has spent the last five years working and backpacking in Southeast Asia, South America, Central America and Europe. She grew up in Italy and on a daily basis, her travels fill her with both curiosity and wonder.

Heritage: Umbrella Pine

You have spent years saying
You don’t know where home is

But just
Look at you

The gnarled and tangled branches of the olive tree
Buried in the maps of your veins

The cracked sun-parched earth
Dusting the brown of your eyes

And the emerald halo of the umbrella pine
Reaching from the curling roots of your hair

The clues are in your very body

Home is the land that lives
Inside your nomad bones

October 18, 2010
Hedy Habra was born in Egypt and is of Lebanese origin. She is the author of a poetry collection, Tea in Heliopolis (Press 53, 2013), a collection of short stories, Flying Carpets (Interlink, . . .
February 2, 2010
Mohammed Bennis was born in Fez, Morocco, in 1948. He has taught in the Faculty of arts at the Mohammed V University in Rabat since 1980. Bennis’ efforts are aimed at the modernization of . . .
February 8, 2010
Fani Papageorgiou’s poems have appeared in magazines and literary journals in the US (The New Republic, The South Carolina Review, Conjunctions et al) where she was nominated for a . . .
September 29, 2009
Maria Terrone’s second book of poetry, A Secret Room in Fall, won the 2005 McGovern Prize from Ashland Poetry Press and was published in December 2006. Her first book, The Bodies We Were . . .
February 15, 2013
Lily Michaelides was born in Nicosia where she lives and works. She attended a course on Secretarial Studies and Public Relations. She is a key member of the non Profit Organisation Ideogramma, . . .

THE ODYSSEY - HOMER - FROM BOOK VIII

“And now, tell me and tell me true. Where have you been wandering, and in what countries have you travelled? Tell us of the peoples themselves, and of their cities—who were hostile, savage and uncivilised, and who, on the other hand, hospitable and humane. Tell us also why you are made so unhappy on hearing about the return of the Argive Danaans from Troy. The gods arranged all this, and sent them their misfortunes in order that future generations might have something to sing about. Did you lose some brave kinsman of your wife’s when you were before Troy? a son-in-law or father-in-law—which are the nearest relations a man has outside his own flesh and blood? or was it some brave and kindly-natured comrade—for a good friend is as dear to a man as his own brother?”

Translator: Samuel Butler