Featuring work by
Xu Xi and Pete
Fromm as well as
writers from
Bangladesh to
Escanaba,
Michigan,
Vol. 3 of
Silk Road raises the
stakes in cross
cultural dialogue.
"Where are you
from?" has become
a more complex
question to answer.
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The Spring 2007 (Vol. 2)
edition spans the world
from China to Lithuania to
Appalachia. Read
translations of work by
Chilean poet Victor E.
Gonzales and Polish poet
Andrzej Bursa. Travel to
Calcutta in Valerie Miner's
fiction. Read More...
The inaugural issue
(
Vol.1) of Silk Road
is a literary
adventure. Come
along... Claire Davis
witnesses a 64,000
acre burn in Idaho
and poet Marvin Bell
says events, not
places make the
poem. "I can't write
honest poetry if I feel
like a tourist about
the setting," he
says.Read More..
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Silk Road Review
a literary crossroads
Silk Road is made possible
by the generous support of
Pacific University in Oregon
The poetry, fiction and
nonfiction in
Vol. 4 takes
us from Mt. Fuji to a
porn shop to the
galaxies housed within
the human skeletan to a
hut in Chad. This issue
is all about artistry. Each
piece shows what
happens when written
language is taken the
distance: The finer the
use of words, the more
deeply we comprehend
the locations that hold
us, change us or refuse
us. Read More...

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