E Y E W E A R, THE BLOG - FREEDOM MEANS BEING UNAFRAID TO WRITE WHAT YOU THINK

Eyewear is always pleased to feature new poems by poets we admire, and one of these is U.S. Dhuga .  Unfortunately, the poem is occasioned by something which we all hope does not prove sinister. U. S. Dhuga is the author of Choral Identity and the Chorus of Elders in Greek Tragedy , published through Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies in the series "Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches" (Lexington Books, 2011). Founder, publisher, and managing editor of The Battersea Review , Dhuga earned his PhD in Classics at Columbia University. He lives in Toronto. Say Banal Again, with Feeling   It’s pronounced baNAWL not BAYnal, my love— this bothers me now, more than before, because now I’ve got that disease where you hold your hip and lurch forward: the all-male (fuck, all-male...) search- crew sent running through recesses of the ‘couch’ to find—so promptly and sincerely—my pills comes back with but fistfuls of Benadryl (non-drowsy) and ass...