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Happy Birthday Derek Walcott!
Our beloved contributor Derek Walcott turns eighty-five this Thursday, and we celebrate by opening up his past work in Little Star Weekly as our Weekly Special! • An early poem revisited in his new collected poems, introduced by editor Glyn Maxwell • An encounter with a forest succubus from his recent play Moon Child We posted […]
Writers: Derek Walcott
Tagged Poetry
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Our new cover!
Issues arriving in December! Order Little Star #6 now at our special pre-publication price here.
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Welcome Chris Sharp! Little Star Gallery curator beginning this week
As we launch our new web-wide version of Little Star Weekly, we also welcome Chris Sharp as our new curator for Little Star Gallery. Chris will be selecting an image for each issue of the Weekly for the six next months, following his predecessors painters Mary Weatherford and John Zinsser. (Our web-based version also makes […]
Writers: Chris Sharp
Tagged Little Star Weekly
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Supernova! Little Star Weekly goes web-wide
We are very thrilled to announce that our little app, Little Star Weekly, which has been bringing a dollop of poetry and prose every Friday to the pockets of readerly iPhone and iPad users, is about to go web-wide and become visible on any internet enabled device! On Friday we’ll post a new web page […]
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Henri Michaux, thirteen ways
This week in Little Star Weekly we feature some little prose poems from a new City Lights book, Thousand Times Broken: Three Books, which translates for the first time, with illustrations from his graphic works, three books by Henri Michaux from the period of his experimentations with mescaline. As Gilian Conoley observes in her introduction: “Both Michaux’s […]
Writers: Henry Michaux
Denis Johnson, at last
Denis Johnson is a writer we have long coveted for Little Star. We had a piece of his elegaic short novel Train Dreams on our blog way back in 2011 and have been longing for more. Now the stars have aligned and his new novel beckons just as we ready ourselves for the new web-based […]
Writers: Denis Johnson
Wolfgang Koeppen, Life in the manor’s shadows
I got to know Bismarck early on, he was on the sewing machine or next to the sewing machine, on which my mother was patching the bed linen for one of those Pomeranian nobleman’s estates, Lossin or Wunkenhagen or Demeritz, and Bismarck was cast in bronze, he was wearing boots that were one hundred percent […]
Writers: Michael Hofmann, Wolfgang Koeppen
Mark Strand, on not forgetting a poem
When I went to Brazil in 1965 as a Fulbright Lecturer I had read only a few of Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s poems in translations done either by Elizabeth Bishop or John Nist. I did not know Portuguese and thought quite erroneously it turned out that I would learn it by doing my own translations. […]
Writers: Carlos Drummond de Adrade, Mark Strand
Epic of the Ex-Urbs, by Tomasz Rozycki
All at once, led by a curious intuition, his cousin began to brake, using not only the pedals but also his feet, his knuckles, and his facial expression, causing smoke to issue from his Polish-made sneakers and a strange smell to rise into the air. They came to a halt. But though they had stopped, […]
Writers: Bill Johnston, Tomasz Różycki
Bronek, by Magdalena Tulli
From the moment my mother came into dementia, time with her ran backwards. First the preceding day vanished from her memory, then the month before. In the outside world the dates followed one another in the usual order, but she paid no attention. In her apartment, late March regained its beginning, and then the page […]
Writers: Magdalena Tulli, William Pierce