Sinan Antoon (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 3/11/25 Sinan Antoon (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 3/11/25

Three Poems from Iraq

“It was mourned by no one / And nothing.”

Banu Mushtaq (Tr. Deepa Bhasthi) 3/4/25 Banu Mushtaq (Tr. Deepa Bhasthi) 3/4/25

The Shroud

“Even in her wildest dreams, she had not thought that Bua would haunt her after death.”

Ma Xu (Tr. Jennifer Fossenbell & Zuo Fei) 2/27/25 Ma Xu (Tr. Jennifer Fossenbell & Zuo Fei) 2/27/25

Once I Mistook the Moonlight on the Sea

“Oh, once again I mistook things”

Youssef Rakha 2/4/25 Youssef Rakha 2/4/25

The Dissenters

“I plan to ask Mouna about it, but in the sound and the fury of her dying, I forget.”

Tan Lin (Tr. Aiden Heung) 2/4/25 Tan Lin (Tr. Aiden Heung) 2/4/25

Response to a Friend

“The world happens, as illusive as dreams.”

Felix Nesi (Tr. Lara Norgaard) 1/21/25 Felix Nesi (Tr. Lara Norgaard) 1/21/25

People from Oetimu

“Torn between jealousy and heartbreak, the men began to drink.”

Therese Bohman (Tr. Marlaine Delargy) 1/7/25 Therese Bohman (Tr. Marlaine Delargy) 1/7/25

Andromeda

“I understood that he was testing me, and that he was doing so because for some reason he had decided to believe in me.”

Andriy Sodomora (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi & Roman Ivashkiv) 12/12/24 Andriy Sodomora (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi & Roman Ivashkiv) 12/12/24

The Mitten

“Maybe I did in fact return the woman’s mitten, for the line between reality and fantasy is so tenuous.”

Marija Dzeisla & Kõrli Stalte (Tr. Will Mawhood & Jayde Will) 12/10/24 Marija Dzeisla & Kõrli Stalte (Tr. Will Mawhood & Jayde Will) 12/10/24

How Many Poets Per Capita?

Poems from two threatened languages in Latvia.

Elena Medel (Tr. Miriam Tobin) 12/3/24 Elena Medel (Tr. Miriam Tobin) 12/3/24

An Agreement on the Matter

“After pulling out her chair, she squeezed herself into the space under the desk, closed her eyes, and slept.”

Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III (Tr. Kristine Ong Muslim) 11/19/24 Amado Anthony G. Mendoza III (Tr. Kristine Ong Muslim) 11/19/24

In Loving Memory: Soldado Tenso Conserbado (1898-1976)

“Conserbado believed that everything he wrote was God’s gift to mankind.”

Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef) 11/12/24 Guka Han (Tr. Katie Assef) 11/12/24

Earshot

“Day after day, I kept turning up the volume of the music, but it only seemed further and further away. After a few months, it had disappeared completely.”

Carey Baraka 10/10/24 Carey Baraka 10/10/24

The Sound of the Waves

“It felt as if, the university having collected us, we were now on display, exotic specimen there to perform. And so we performed.”

Edwidge Danticat 10/8/24 Edwidge Danticat 10/8/24

This Is My Body

A reflection on violence and nourishment in America after experiencing a mass shooting hoax at a Florida mall.

Bruna Dantas Lobato 10/3/24 Bruna Dantas Lobato 10/3/24

Blue Light Hours

“In the movie of my life in America, the one my mother liked to watch, a young woman sits alone in her bedroom and calls her mother each night on a computer.”

Adela Greceanu (Tr. Monica Cure) 9/24/24 Adela Greceanu (Tr. Monica Cure) 9/24/24

Gabÿ, Tree, Goose

Three poems.

Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24 Maylis de Kerangal (Tr. Jessica Moore) 9/19/24

After

“I ran through the school gates and jumped on my bike without looking back, five kilometers down this road more familiar than even my mother’s voice, and which was suddenly evasive, distant, like a laminated picture under a transparent film.”

K. N. Prasanth (Tr. Dr. Jayasree Kalathil) 8/22/24 K. N. Prasanth (Tr. Dr. Jayasree Kalathil) 8/22/24

Hornets

“Hornets are trying to live too, making their nests. Humans have inside them envy and cruelty and pride and so on and hornets, well, they have a bit of poison.”

Lucrecia Zappi 8/22/24 Lucrecia Zappi 8/22/24

Eleonor/Eleonora

“Was she out there somewhere, and what was she doing? And how had she survived the same ordeal as me?”

Mercè Rodoreda (Tr. Gala Sicart Olavide & Nick Caistor) 8/22/24 Mercè Rodoreda (Tr. Gala Sicart Olavide & Nick Caistor) 8/22/24

Flowers

“Neither the strange currents of love nor water on the verge of thirst — nothing in this world can compare to the pleasure offered by observing this flower.”