Photo by Ammad / Adobe Stock This poem came to me, passed cell phone to cell phone by journalists, with the request that I help it be published in the English-speaking world. It was written by…

Memorial cenotaph in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park, designed by Kenzō Tange / Photo by Phillip H-B / stock.adobe.com   worldlittoday · As If We Know - Rilla Askew But they weren’t fa…

Painting by the Iraqi artist Ghassan Faïdi / P65 dessin café 70 x 50 Confinement du printemps 2020 / Reproduced by permission Sketch me a Palestinewith children chasing a ballin a va…

Photo by Narin Sapaisarn / Adobe Stock The city is a bad wind,the suburbs, nauseating heat waves,and the streets, breath wheezed out of fevered lungs.People swarm like microbes.Their numbercalculat…

Photo by bryan priestley / Unsplash.com gaplessyou can count everything once more, it’s missingno wind gauges, square structures, time.nothing has moved in the camouflage,in the winterbite of…

Sunset over Lake Altus-Lugert / Photo by Logan / Adobe Stock Domestic LifeDomestic lifeis the fastest way to kill a poet’s madness and the fastest way to kill the poet.I read Claudia my p…

Photo by arinahabich / Adobe Stock 1Before sunrisereleased for publicationmorning prayers 2Mount Herzl lit upscent of dead flowersnearly fall 3A line of soldierscrossing the bordergreen f…

. . . I sleep early, risebefore daylight, waitwith patient stuporthe coming gray light. . . I move slowly,surreptitiously — ananimal hungry to find success in the hunt.In days of winter. . . I re…

Photo by ike / Adobe Stock Boat and ReactionYou were cooking in a dim sum restaurant  it worried meIn dreams  we react so strangelySometimes  only these reactions matteras if there’s no connection…

In the Beginning the Word worldlittoday · In The Beginning The Word by Rachel Tzvia Back 1 the word was  unverbed unruled just birthed before bird on the altar or binding  at hilltop not taken or gi…

Background photo by Sved Oliver / Adobe Stock A Visitor from Hell A resident of Hell, I’ve been sitting here, Lord, for years. Do I not deserve to be a citizen? How is it that even in Hell the ho…

Courtesy of University of New Mexico Press / Stock.adobe.com The Orphan (Isaac Luria) what is the matter? why do you always pursue me as an enemy?/ you set hidden traps for me?/ you catch me in m…

Photo by trentinness / Adobe Stock Hunger Strike In the last watch of blood and memories, in the last neighing of empty stomachs, the human tree announces its prophecy overflowing with our bright…

Photo by AVTG / Stock.adobe.com Translator’s note: Gizella Hervay (1934–1982) is sometimes referred to as the “Ingeborg Bachmann of Transylvania.” Mostly neglected by criticism durin…

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Photo by Manikanth Halyal / Unsplash [Untitled] At the edge of the village a woman in a stupa ground millet. She whistled brazenly, calling the wind from the steppe to keep the chaff flying so he…

bettysphotos / stock.adobe.com Writing Poetry on the Assembly Line Sitting in front of the machine in the workshop Exhaling like the moonlight. The soldering iron, screwdriver, motor, buzzer, the…

for Naomi Shihab Nye  Eid al-Fitr Shavuot Pentecost 2021  I want to follow Naomi  to walk in her footsteps to  gather with her only the gentle  words like fallen w…

Photo by Michel Banabila / Flickr Dinosaurs Each day, I drive beneath the shadow of leviathan bones, concrete muscles poured over rebar ribcage, fossils of future freeways. I walk through the un…

Painting by Mehdi Qotbi (b. 1951, Rabat) / Courtesy of the artist Les homeless Les homeless ne vivent pas dans la rue Ils attendent que le ciel se jette sur eux chaque soir Un ciel chargé de tou…

Illustration by fran_kie / Adobe Stock If I Must Die If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell my things to buy a piece of cloth and some strings, (make it white with a long tail) so…

Photo by Yousef Khanfar / www.yousefkhanfar.com. This olive tree in the Al Aqsa compound is believed to be 2,000 years old. I’m not interested in who suffered the most. I’m interested in…

Photo by h heyerlein / Unsplash Field at Night On a night without you I descend into hell streetlamps become enemies Solitary I walk the salt mines my footprints are salt measuring fate salt like…

  Illustration courtesy of the author Julius D. Jones is a talented and thought-provoking artist who cares deeply about humanity, justice, and peace. Despite being incarcerated for more…

Photo by said alamri / Unsplash Immigration, detention, unequal pay are modern words for slavery again. Dictatorship, borders. Any imposition of one’s will over another is a fo…