An Interview with Persis Karim, Poet/Professor at San Jose State University by San José based writer, Chad Hall, 4/29/15, conducted for CONTENT Magazine. read the full interview

I love the wind–

its breath in my hair,
its fingers on my back,
the sound of it in trees
or at the edge of the sea.
I love the wind more
than anything I cannot see.

Persis Karim 

The Wind in April

Thanks to Daniel Simon, Managing Editor of   World Literature Today for sending me this review!

What an honor to have someone draw attention to the magazine World Literature Today--a magazine I too admire and respect for its attention to international literature, global authors, and media such as film. The issue that I edited in March/April 2015 ...

ContentMagazineInterview -April 2015

The strong wind pushes and whips

a dragonfly far from water

I nearly step on its glassy wings

but the light of its shimmer catches my eye

I lift and hold its delicateness

in the palm of my aging hand

the black veins of its travels

the circuitry of its flight

are transparent in each flutter

I set it in a tree to recover

hoping ...

At 21, you might have taken the world
into the folds of your arms, held it softly
like a baby, or flexed your muscles
and hurled it into space, like the fire
of your bright-burning. No one knew
what the stars held for you, ...

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I. all day the clouds heave

each hopeful moment I wait

but not one drop falls

II. birds rest on wires

waiting for the rainstorm too

gossip suffices

Thank you Mr. Spock. Thank you Leonard Nimoy. You are one and the same to me, really. I will miss your voice and serious demeanor, your depth of vision as a man and an actor, but more so, as someone who straddled the centuries, and helped me straddle my own sense of time and place. ...

nest of moss and light

cups her still body in green

beneath her hums life  

(Persis Karim)