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Five Poems

By Mehrdad Fallah

November 2018
Mehrdad Fallah

Photo: Ria Alfana/Unsplash A Conversation from Far, Far Away * No linedear friendconnects here, where I am,with where you are.Isn’t it strange that I’m talking to you? The question you handed meh...
Four Poems

By Samantha Thornhill

September 2018
Samantha Thornhill

Photo: Hans Braxmeier/Pixabay Blue Soca Fugue He thought it would be a good idea to invite Andie.I’ve always loved men who swim in the ink of their ideas.I loved that brown suit of skin he wore.The...
Three Poems

By Hero Kurda

July 2018
Hero Kurda

Ismail Khayat, A Girl, 2015, Sulaimani, 40 x 27, acrylic paint and colored pencils on paper You in Me On the shore of the warm seaI standMy heels kiss your shoresI lift my dress to my knees...
The Norman Chronicles

By Chantal Bizzini

July 2018
Chantal Bizzini

The cemetery as seen en route to Landes, Canappeville, Eure, France. Photo by Chantal Bizzini Author’s note: With this somewhat old-fashioned title, I actually intended to talk about the...
Annus Mirabilis (Anus Horribilis)

By Aleksey Lukyanov

May 2018
Aleksey Lukyanov

Photo: Skitterphoto/Pixabay Outside the Special Instrument Factory, protesters rally against war, corruption, and the latest in protective head gear: the Ex-Box. Procrustes-1 was t...
Two Poems

By Janine Joseph

March 2018
Janine Joseph

Lacuna (7), 2017 by Sara Jimenez New Patient Intake Form In the beginning, there was a window I pried the blinds to make lightof my losses I fished my hands into and sh...
Thirteen Dreams and One Duterte

By Eugene Gloria

March 2018
Eugene Gloria

illustration: francis estrada [Number1Dream] A wall diademed with broken glass can tear the skinof anyone who dares to scale the wall Hot box for a house, a tinderbox of electric fans ...
Tesseract (excerpts)

By Jason Bayani

March 2018
Jason Bayani

Moonrise After Adams, 2016, oil, acrylic, interior design magazines, nature calendars, Pioneer Supermarket bags, plastic tablecloth, linoleum, and gift wrap on wood, by Camille Hoffman...
God Is Burning

By Li-Young Lee

January 2018
Li-Young Lee

God Is Burning Through an open wound in God’s left side,springtime enters into the world,sticky, green, with a taste of iron.That’s not the wound I hurt from. There’s a dull pain...
Three Poems in Mapuzungun, Spanish, and English

By Liliana Ancalao

January 2018
Liliana Ancalao

[1] feichi lali mülen ñi nontual katrütuleufün feichi lali mülen ñi nontual katrütuleufünchem trewa ngiyulaenew, nielan trewatrongli trewa nümüalu...
#Moving

By María José Navia

November 2017
María José Navia

Photo: Katherine Dewey Hill This story begins with three @ handles and ends with two.With a single hashtag, repeated insistently like a mantra...
Four Poems

By Maxim Amelin

September 2017
Maxim Amelin

Satiro della Valle, Capitoline Museums, Rome Эти бездонные ночи в июле Эти бездонные ночи в июле, О!Ты вопрошаешь: — Меня обманули? — Да, — отвечаю, — но как! Лучше не спрашива...
After the War

By Rachel Tzvia Back

March 2017
Rachel Tzvia Back

Gaza City. Photo: Getty / AFP photo / Mahmud Hams History moves darkly and we are small, soft things. –...
Two Trilingual Poems

By Feliciano Sánchez Chan

September 2016
Feliciano Sánchez Chan

Photo by Jordan Whitt/Unsplash U k’a’ajsaj a tuukul Kin k’áatiktuntimbáe’Bix a máan a ta’ak a wichtu bo’oy táanxel t’aanilKa’ a wa’al ma’atan a na’atik u t’aan Yum Iik’. A yuume’tu yu’ubaj a tsikba...
“To a Phoenix”: A Poem from Azerbaijan

By Rabiqe Nazim qizi

March 2016
Rabiqe Nazim qizi

A simurgh (a monstrous mythical bird with the power of reasoning and speech). From Marvels of Things Created and Miraculous Aspects of Things Existing, by al-Qazwīnī (d. 1283/682). Courtesy...
Four Poems

By Walle Sayer

January 2016
Walle Sayer

Editorial note: The Swabian versions of the following poems are read by the author. The English versions are read by Tegan White-Nesbitt. Abwesenheitsnotiz Aushäusig dahei...
Reborn

By Forugh Farrokhzad

March 2015
Forugh Farrokhzad

Photo by Pink Sherbet Photography All my being is a dark verse that repeats you to the dawn of unfading flowering and growth. I conjured you in my poem with a sigh and grafted you to water, fire...
Another Birth

By Forugh Farrokhzad

March 2015
Forugh Farrokhzad

[Click here to read the lyrics in Farsi.] The whole of my being is a dark verse of Scripture which in its repeated recitations will take you away to the dawn of eternal buddings and bloomings. I...
Two Poems by Luljeta Lleshanaku

By Luljeta Lleshanaku

November 2014
Luljeta Lleshanaku

Photo by Brent Pearson/Flickr Negative Space I I was born on a Tuesday in April.I didn’t cry. Not because I was stunned. I wasn’t even mad.I was the lucky egg, trained for gratitudeinside the belly f...
Five Poems by Julia Fiedorczuk

By Julia Fiedorczuk

November 2014
Julia Fiedorczuk

Photo by Alberto Varela Bio How unlike a dead fish a live fish is – Maxine Hong Kingston Kiedy byłam rybąKosmos jak zawsze okrągłyMiał przytulne ściany Śniłam o boskich pł...
Two Poems by Amarsana Ulzytuev

By Amarsana Ulzytuev

September 2014
Amarsana Ulzytuev

The author reading at the Gogol House Museum in Moscow, February 2014. Photo © Anna Dikareva. Listen to videotaped recordings of both Russian originals in the following clip (4:00-10:05). Shenhe...
Audio Recording of “The Swallows”

By G. Mend-Ooyo

September 2014
G. Mend-Ooyo

Swallows. Photo by Kenneth Cole Schneider/Flickr The Swallows G. Mend-Ooyo Returning from afar, swallows in flocksEmbrace the tales of the gentle, tranquil steppe.The waters of eter...
Audio Recording of “Language of Stone”

By Yorgos Soukoulis

September 2014
Yorgos Soukoulis

Photo by Katerina Cheiladaki Translator’s note: Arvanitika, or Arberishte as it is called in the Corinthian mountain villages, is one of the many languages in the world facing extin...
Two Poems

By Mikeas Sánchez

September 2014
Mikeas Sánchez

Photo by Marjan Lazarevski Jesucristo’is Ja’ Ñäjktyäj’ya Äj’ Tzumama’is Kyionuksku’y Äj’ tzumama’is ja’ myuspäkä’ kastiya’orenatzu’ jyambä’ä ngyomis’kyionukskutyamnatzu’ xaä’ tumä nabdzu’jyambäu...
The Stream

By Michael Cope

May-August 2014
Michael Cope

How tenderly the stream flowsamong the numberless blossomswhose heads dip and weavein the tepid east wind, how warmthe insect tune, and multitudethe ripe green grasses, rank on rankthrough which i...