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.”

Francesca Mastruzzo (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 1/14/25 Francesca Mastruzzo (Tr. Elettra Pauletto) 1/14/25

Writing to Political Prisoners in Russia

Dmitrij’s main crime was photographing bridges in Vladivostok. I decided to write to him.

Urszula Honek (Tr. Dawid Mobolaji) 1/14/25 Urszula Honek (Tr. Dawid Mobolaji) 1/14/25

Poems from Poland

“I want to think of her as living.”

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.”

Yásnaya Elena A. Gil (Tr. Ellen Jones) 11/26/24 Yásnaya Elena A. Gil (Tr. Ellen Jones) 11/26/24

To Read

“I’d be lying if I said I’ve always enjoyed reading.”

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.”

Teresa Grøtan (Tr. Caroline Waight) 11/12/24 Teresa Grøtan (Tr. Caroline Waight) 11/12/24

Death in Grammar

“Oh, how I admire the capacity of the Spanish language to express uncertainty so precisely!”

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.”

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.”

Paloma De Dinechin & Nicola Zolin (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 9/5/24 Paloma De Dinechin & Nicola Zolin (Tr. Jessica Sequeira) 9/5/24

The Rainforest Speaks

Scientists are recording the sounds of the Amazon in a bid to better protect it.

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.”

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.”