Author Archives: dianeosiris

TOURBIÈRES Les allées du vent aux dalles de bruyère À Frau de VialDans les tourbièresDe grands pins sont couchésEt leur mort a laissé dans l’airUn parfum de résineLes tourbillons rageurs malmènent la hêtraie C’est là que sans faillir croît la gentiane bleue. Osiris 70

Toute approche du sublime rappelle à chacun le devoir d’aimer dans le proche et le lointain là où se profile l’ombre pérenne du désir partagé alors que dans le ciel sous la grande arche s’improvisent les destins OSIRIS 74

OSIRIS is available at:  Amherst Books—Amherst, Massachusetts 01002  Booklink Booksellers—Northampton, Massachusetts 01060 City Lights Books—San Francisco, California 94111 Librairie Gallimard—Montréal, Québec H2X 2V4 Grolier Poetry Bookshop—Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 Malvern Books—Austin, Texas 78705 The Strand Bookstore—New York, New York 10003 

Osiris 101 will be ready for distribution towards the end of December 2025 or in early January 2026. The Reading Period for Osiris 102 begins January 15, 2026 and ends March 31. Osiris does not publish any text written with the aid of AI, nor do we publish previously published material. We believe in theContinue reading “Reading January 15-March 31, 2026”

When Birds Were Saints on Cruachán Aigli The eagles have gone by way of the west in the rush of the sea and birds flit stir  occasionally landing on the stack’s steep crown where pilgrims yearly climb in adoration And here the fog caught me in its deep wakeful sleep closed in around me likeContinue reading “George Moore”

When I listen to Russian Music When I listen to Russian music snow begins to fall. I pull on overcoats that come with the records, coat over coat over coat, and leave my home forever. When I listen to Russian music I search for children in the drifts. I have only the coats on myContinue reading “Ray Keifetz”

La Senna In fondoin ognuno di noic’è una Sennaavvitata e contortasnodata e sgranatadebordante e cangiantefluente e degradanteverso le nostre assenzediluita nelle attesedileguata in capillari ramatiCon lampioni ai latie gialli e tenuicon ponti azzuccherati e nebbiosi con pioggia fineC’è una Sennatortuosa e impetuosaingabbiata da argini e panchine nubi basse e voragini radicate inurbamenti statici e doloriContinue reading “Adriano de Luna”

Osiris would like to thank all the writers who have contributed their work since 1972. You share your voices, your visions, and your cultures to stand in solidarity with your fellow writers. Each of you, writing in different languages, keys and registers, exploring harmonies and dissonances, moving language in new ways or embracing traditions, is unique.Continue reading “Appreciation from Osiris”

Contraires Le silence s’étire svelte, sauvage à travers les buis au ras du sol, gronde et s’élève comme une masse invisible. L’espace se dilate en ce rien minuscule d’où l’on apprend la lenteur au cœur de la disparition.