A continuation of the Pages to Pixels’ Poems on Loan series. The seventh installment comes from writer Rich Ives, whose poem here first appeared in elimae. It is entitled: “A Treatise on the Structure of Romantic Art”. Ives has published in North American Review, Massachusetts Review, Northwest Review, Quarterly West, Iowa Review, Poetry Northwest, [...]

A continuation of the Pages to Pixels’ Poems on Loan series. The fourth installment has been graciously provided by Rainer Maria Rilke. The poem is entitled “Before Summer Rain”. (I have decided, though of course I am always happy to feature contemporary poets, that it would not hurt to throw some admirable classics into the [...]

Pages to Pixels interviews poet Brian Barker; discuss politics, poetry, publishing.

Pages to Pixels interviews Anne Valente, an award winning writer.

This post kicks off a new series on Pages to Pixels, “Journal Profiles”. In this series, popular online literary journals will be reviewed and explored in regards to mission, innovation, design, and intention. The first magazine to be reviewed is Guernica. Since its recent inception, Guernica, “A Magazine of Art and Politics,” has quickly risen [...]

A continuation of the Pages to Pixels’ Poems on Loan series. The fourth installment has been graciously provided by Brian Laidlaw, and published in Pank. The poem is entitled “Elegy for the Analog Self”. Brian is a poet and songwriter out of San Francisco. He studied Creative Writing at Stanford, and earned his MFA in [...]

In certain poems, I find a passion and excitement that creates an irresistible aura; as if the poet invokes an art that reaches––and destroys––the rigidity of the written word. In all the poetry I’ve read of his, Ricardo Maldonado exudes such a passion. With writing reminiscent, in parts, of the exuberance of American transcendentalism–certainly, America! [...]

The best translators bring the beautiful, subtle intricacies of a writer’s language to a forefront in their translations. They become poets of transition and unimaginable flexibility. Mary Ann Caws is such a translator. Her work––translations of a myriad of french writers––breathes with the original intention of each primary piece. Her writing is superseded only by [...]