Jorge Luis Borges was born in 1899 in Argentina. He was a journalist, author, and poet, and now his writings are considered to be classics of the 20th century. J. M. Coetzee said of him “He, more than anyone, renovated the language of fiction and thus opened the way to a remarkable generation of Spanish-American novelists.” Borges is better known for his prose but he began his writing career with poetry. He wrote his own original poetry and translated poets for an Argentinian audience. Octavio Paz, a Mexican poet and essayist, said of him, “He cultivated three genres: the essay, the poem, and the short story. The division is arbitrary.…

Stanley Moss is an American poet, publisher, and art dealer. He was educated at Trinity College in Connecticut and Yale University. Poet Hayden Carruth has said of him “The poetry of the ages is an argument with God, but few poets have picked up that argument in recent years. Stanley Moss does…He can continue the argument and keep it immediate to our lives.” This poem caught my attention because it uses God’s name, Jehovah. You are Jehovah, and I am a wanderer. Who should have mercy on a wanderer if not Jehovah? You create and I decay. Who should have mercy on the decayed if not the creator? You are…

Lisel Mueller was a German-American poet who lived form 1924-2020. She was born in Hamburg, Germany and she and her family had to flee the Nazis when Mueller was 15. They immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Indiana. Her work “has been praised for its attentiveness to quiet moments of domestic drama, and its ability to speak to the experiences of family and semi-rural life.” Doctor, you say there are no haloes around the streetlights in Paris and what I see is an aberration caused by old age, and affliction. I tell you it has taken me all my life to arrive at the vision of gas lamps as…