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September 6, 2017 |
Liu Xiaobo, 1991 / Courtesy of Wang Ya Translator’s note: This photo of Liu Xiaobo swimming surfaced on the Internet after the sea burial in Dalian, China. Those of us who were hear... -
August 30, 2017 |
Bury Me tell me wet limestone flinching coral reefs what’s it like to alwaysbe night tell me what is it to be rooted in shadow ... -
August 2, 2017 |
coniferconifer, “water ablution pavilion,” November 30, 2013 Sparrows, Sparrows She is a man in her late forties and nobody knows when she was born or when she built a silvery house at the notorio... -
July 31, 2017 |
Chañaral is a small coastal city in the Atacama region of Chile. Devastating flash floods in 2015 caused an estimated $1.5 billion in damage to the region. Photo by jipe7. Chañaral A desert town of... -
July 26, 2017 |
Editorial note: This Sunday, July 30, marks the World Day against Trafficking in Persons, established in 2013 by the UN General Assembly. Nadia Murad—nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and c... -
June 19, 2017 |
Eros Bendato (Eros bound), bronze, 1999, by Igor Mitoraj, Kraków, Poland / Photo by Val Kerry Not Elegy, But Eros for Xulhaz Mannan, LGBT activist murdered i... -
June 14, 2017 |
Rich, “On a Saturday Afternoon” (on the road from Royal, Nebraska, to the Ashfall Fossil Beds), May 25, 2013 Creation Stories My favorite creation story right nowis the Babylonian one,where Apsu and... -
June 28, 2016 |
Translator’s note: Considered Morocco’s greatest living poet, Abdellatif Laâbi wrote this poem in 1975, roughly three years into his decade-long prison sentence, one of many thousan... -
February 17, 2016 |
Stone faces in Cambodia. Photo by Tammy Ho. In the second installment of “Asian Traumatic Poetics” (to read part 1, click here), I will look at two more poems published in Cha that discuss a... -
February 10, 2016 |
Chris Beckett, One & Other, by Antony Gormley, Trafalgar Square, London, 2009. In this post and one that will follow next week, I will explore the representation of personal trauma in po... -
January 6, 2016 |
A girl waves the Egyptian national flag as thousands of demonstrators participate in antigovernment protests, February 8, 2011. Photo: Felipe Trueba / EPA / Thinking Images v.9 afterwar...
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