Poetry

From Snakewoman

By Dario Bellezza, translated from Italian by Peter Covino January 15, 2025

Crazed, crazed for love, to love / thresholds oblivious and rabid for trade

Poetry

A Star from the Land of the Dead

By Najwan Darwish, translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid January 15, 2025

Your departure’s no departure, / your return is no return

Poetry

A Letter from Ain Defla

By Najwan Darwish, translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid January 15, 2025

I’m standing in the fog / and I cannot stay.

Poetry

From III – Rome

By Dario Bellezza, translated from Italian by Peter Covino January 15, 2025

Perhaps tomorrow I’ll come to a green / field,—and I’ll no longer be alone.

Poetry

From Secret Death

By Dario Bellezza, translated from Italian by Peter Covino January 15, 2025

We should all take note of this: / that we are flesh and we die.

Poetry

A Yemeni Rhythm

By Najwan Darwish, translated from Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid January 15, 2025

A song in the wadi / is all that remains.

Poetry

If I have grandchildren with this accent

By Ana Carolina Quiñonez Salpietro, translated from Spanish by Tiffany Troy March 4, 2024

I’ll tell them their grandfather / must have lived in a tall building

Family & Relationships

Poetry

Glaze

By Isra Hassan March 4, 2024

From afar, I was seen practicing / agony.

Poetry

The Noise

By Raymond Antrobus March 4, 2024

died so I looked online / and couldn’t believe the price

AudioPoetry

Good

By Robin Myers February 5, 2024

For a while there was a mantra and it went like this.

AudioPoetry

Southern Sonnet

By Zeina Hashem Beck February 5, 2024

I’m trying to write you a love song but / the news overspills as I boil coffee.

Poetry

The Rules

By Kyle Carrero Lopez February 5, 2024

In all things art, put quality first.

Poetry

Final Reflection

By Tilsa Otta, translated from Spanish by Farid Matuk February 5, 2024

It’s amazing what rain can do to a stained wall / Said an angel from the custodial team

AudioPoetry

Good Mourning Palestine

By Samah Serour Fadil January 16, 2024

Gooood Mourning Pa-les-tiiiiiiiiiine!

Poetry

Once Upon a Time

By Natsume Sōseki, translated from Chinese by Ryan Choi January 16, 2024

Once upon a time, there was a lord who lit / Fire to his castle

Poetry

Lost and Found Poem

By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha January 16, 2024

I used to meet him at the coffee shop, / the one in Remal

Poetry

Kingdom

By Brian Gyamfi January 16, 2024

The movement of a fly becomes a rational thought / there are boys and then there are boys

Poetry

The Robert Poems

By S. Yarberry December 11, 2023

How does one know where to begin? / The mirror asks the subject.

Anthologia

AudioPoetry

Song

By Tracy Fuad December 11, 2023

Sometimes it was just a humming / Which came through the windows at night

Poetry

A Spoonful

By Lucas Crawford December 11, 2023

of sugar helps the Metformin go down.

Poetry

To My Dog Tofu During the Blizzard of December 18th 2020

By Ocean Vuong December 11, 2023

Late inside the pleasure dome / I lost the old dream of waking / death made possible.

AudioPoetry

[The Tip of the Stalk]

By Ernst Meister, translated from German by Graham Foust and Samuel Frederick November 6, 2023

The tip of the stalk / draws / the tossed flower —

Poetry

It’s Important I Remember That Things Are Getting Back to Normal Around Here —

By Cortney Lamar Charleston November 6, 2023

the trains are busy with bodies

Poetry

Revision

By Hala Alyan November 6, 2023

I don’t mean to hate the sparrows.

Poetry

Until the End

By Carl Phillips October 2, 2023

Perversion, sang the sea, / in waves.

Poetry

Garden

By Ahmet Baitursynuly, translated from the Kazakh by Jake Zawlacki October 2, 2023

Clouds concealed, / Now settled down

AudioPoetry

Histories

By Mandy Moe Pwint Tu October 2, 2023

In 1988 our fledgling nation drowned again in blood and clamshell clanging, oh how holy the flesh on pagoda stairs

Poetry

Essay On Tilt

By Kimberly Quiogue Andrews October 10, 2023

Winter. A small door opens, and on the other side, a brightness.

Anthologia

AudioPoetry

Diversity Statement

By Gustav Parker Hibbett September 5, 2023

In the years that formed me, I poured myself into classes, hobbies, extracurriculars I was told you’d like: Latin, Mandarin, Multivariable Calculus, Swimming, AP Physics.

EducationRace

Poetry

[To the noise of rain, pushing sleep…]

Dimitri Psurtsev, translated by Philip Metres September 5, 2023

To the noise of rain, pushing sleep / Like hay into a sack, into me,

Poetry

Voice-Over

By Anna Maria Hong September 5, 2023

A tongue beneath an avalanche, I have cracked / the firmament’s mirror

Poetry

The Owls of Saginaw

By Monica Rico August 21, 2023

My father            knew doves / were a clenched fist

Anthologia

Poetry

Peach

By Cyrée Jarelle Johnson August 7, 2023

The summers swole me: knuckles first, then wrists right down to the elbows.

Poetry

Idle Dawn

Lee Min-ha, translated by Jein Han August 7, 2023

Grandma, why did you powder your face

Poetry

The Trash Mountain Writes Home

By Yunkyo Moon-Kim August 7, 2023

Do not stop the home from leaving, from dissolving / its bouldered foundation into the bank of bodies beneath.

Asia & OceaniaConflict

Poetry

Instead of Ekphrasis

By George Abraham July 5, 2023

i. site of injury turned site of inquiry turned how we met in the field turned virtual

Poetry

Self-Portrait As a Black Hole

By Mag Gabbert July 6, 2023

A poem

EssayPoetry

From Thus Spoke n’t

By Kim Hyesoon, translated from Korean by Jack Jung July 5, 2023

Selections from Kim Hyesoon’s experimental lyric essay project

AudioPoetry

Closure

By Omotara James June 5, 2023

My parents were scheduled to divorce on Valentine’s Day.

Poetry

Untitled IX, 1982

By Victoria Chang June 5, 2023

I counted 44 lines and while I counted, 44 Asian women were touched.

Poetry

Toward Mercy I Throw the First Stone

By Simon Shieh June 12, 2023

Before I knew you I dreamed of you.

Anthologia

Poetry

The Perfect Place for a Homeland

By Dmitry Blizniuk, translated by Sergey Gerasimov June 5, 2023

Autumn. The perfect place for a homeland —

Poetry

Portrait of Fear

By Kim Hyesoon, translated by Don Mee Choi July 6, 2023

Flower blossoming in her hair is scorching hot — Sister is

AudioPoetry

Abstraction

By Lindsay Turner May 1, 2023

A cheap print of an aspen grove / In the exam room

AudioPoetry

Infix

By Chris Santiago May 1, 2023

What happens when fantastic / becomes fan-fucking-tastic

AudioPoetry

Daydream

By Tuệ Sỹ, translated by Nguyen Ba Chung and Martha Collins May 1, 2023

Riding an ant, we seek a fairy’s cave / A realm of long life, where butterflies flutter

Poetry

Gunpowder

By Jesús Cos Causse, translated by Kristin Dykstra May 1, 2023

I have met gunpowder: gunpowder moves past with death

AudioPoetry

Noon

By Phoebe Giannisi, translated by Brian Sneeden May 1, 2023

a row of cypresses towered over the road / we knelt at the water’s source

Poetry

David’s Nipples

By Wayne Koestenbaum May 1, 2023

on Sunday after church I took a walk

Poetry

Anthologia

By Sarah Ahmad April 25, 2023

Guernica’s gathering of poems by a single poet

Anthologia

AudioPoetry

I Want, Still

By Dure Ahmed April 17, 2023

Today I am empty, fasting till sundown

Anthologia

PoetryThe Cutting Room

A Girl Can Dream — 

By Vandana Khanna April 5, 2023

Unpublished poems from a new collection reimagining Hindu goddesses through a feminist lens

AudioPoetry

Paper Hummingbirds

By Myronn Hardy April 5, 2023

I’m afraid of what’s beyond the dishes / we wash in retrieved lake water.

AudioPoetry

At the Gallery

By Kwame Dawes April 5, 2023

Finally at the gallery, the couple (all fiction of them), / she in that white bustier, he with the cutout

AudioPoetry

From Guerrilla Blooms

By Daniela Catrileo, translated by Edith Adams April 5, 2023

I look in the mirror / I look at the Indian women

AudioPoetry

In-N-Out for Iftar

By Tamer Mostafa March 20, 2023

The car in front stalls

AudioPoetry

Ism

By Sarah Ghazal Ali March 20, 2023

The name of God is sufficient / for me.

Religion

AudioPoetry

From Here

By Edil Hassan March 20, 2023

Build your life on white, on silence and on stillness.

AudioPoetry

Low Flying Planes

By Hajjar Baban February 20, 2023

A mirrorless story. My father’s mother’s name.

Anthologia

Poetry

Exodus

By Ayesha Raees December 14, 2022

Once is still burial. The rain closes / on gravel, cementing solid / a sterile garden.

Poetry

from Couplets

By Maggie Millner December 7, 2022

All my life I’ve shown up late.

AudioPoetry

Gravitational Constant

By Alicia Mountain November 30, 2022

Even after some time, I am still the weeping wound in the houseplant, / tearing easily.

Poetry

Hill

By Cho Ji Hoon, translated by Sekyo Nam Haines November 23, 2022

Climbing for ten li, over the white cloud-dusted hill, / then, I came down to a small road leading to a village.

AudioPoetry

Wrong Distance

By Elizabeth Metzger November 16, 2022

Don’t you miss me as if I were dead? // That’s how you’d like to be loved.

Poetry

People’s Teeth

By Ahlam Bsharat, translated by Fady Joudah November 9, 2022

One question of childhood: why / do some people have gold teeth?

AudioPoetry

(De)Composition

By Alexa Luborsky November 2, 2022

there will be no more baptisms

AudioPoetry

Eulogy

By Anthony Aguero October 26, 2022

The officer’s fists on the door

AudioPoetry

Radical Surgeon of My Own Life

By Jessica Abughattas October 19, 2022

To wait for something to open, that’s optimism.

Bodies & Nature

Poetry

Our Village

By Tesfamariam Woldemariam, translated by Menghis Samuel and Charles Cantalupo October 12, 2022

You say, our village. / Do you mean our exact village

History

ExcerptPoetry

“The beautiful dream that we unfold and extend…”

By Monchoachi; translated by Eric Fishman; photographs by David Damoison October 11, 2022

"Turn, forever going to your other side / turn your body on the space..."

AudioPoetry

Aubade

By Marco Yan October 5, 2022

Another year of rain and terrible air, then I see the street again —

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Brief History

By Gbenga Adesina September 28, 2022

The night the flag of the British empire came down / in my country, the cry of a mottled wolf was heard in the wild.

AudioPoetry

Cruel World As a Litany Of Stars

By Haolun Xu September 21, 2022

Forgive me, I did not mean to copy your life.

Poetry

spirit animal

By Nicole Cecilia Delgado, translated by Urayoán Noel September 14, 2022

At this point, / my body’s beastly smell / starts to be all that matters.

Bodies & Nature

Poetry

Speaking Alone

By Tristan Tzara, translated by Heather Green September 7, 2022

senseless here’s the man with the crystal contractions / with the rumor of sand with a doll’s past tense

Poetry

In the Middle of August, I Saw the Sky

By Romeo Oriogun August 10, 2022

One morning, on a wet day during the week...

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Irrawaddy Delta, 2016

By Maung Day August 3, 2022

A grain of rice cannot feed a hundred mouths

Poetry

Hypertension

By Courtney Faye Taylor July 27, 2022

In the early 1870s, at the mouth of the Big Bend tunnel, / John Henry beat a mechanical steam drill in a “steel driving” / contest.

Race

AudioPoetry

Search Party

By Steven Espada Dawson July 20, 2022

Together, above the kitchen sink, we peeled / a hundred russets.

Family & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Bringing Up Mother

By Idman Omar July 13, 2022

I was not dressed correctly when / motherhood interviewed me.

Bodies & Nature

AudioPoetry

Lived Here

By Tarik Dobbs July 6, 2022

My Birth State can’t possibly drive interest

AudioPoetry

If I Say My Body Is Asian Does This Poem Disappear

By Eugenia Leigh June 29, 2022

Another poem mannequin- / Ing the body.

Bodies & Nature

Poetry

from Beyond the Somber Station

By Liliana Ponce, translated by Michael Martin Shea June 22, 2022

Thought reduced to ashes — / in the golden sky tracing lines.

AudioPoetry

The Christmas Poem

By Jackson Holbert June 15, 2022

there are thousands of days left / tens of thousands if we’re lucky

Arts & Culture

AudioPoetry

A Poem Is a Landscape of the Mind

By Megan Pinto June 8, 2022

It was the winter of my life. Afternoons, / I watched light fade / from the faces of brownstones.

AudioPoetry

When the Sky Is Closed

By Mark Yakich June 1, 2022

Not even children who brave the street / Will notice the robins, mistaking them for nightingales.

Poetry

Hope Dissidents

Mona Kareem, translated by Sara Elkamel May 25, 2022

When we die, / the cemetery keeper tires / of surveilling our graves’ windows.

Poetry

One Hundred Percent House

By Shin Hae-uk, translated by Spencer Lee-Lenfield May 18, 2022

A house where no one lives / needs someone to draw it full of glass, / then smash that glass to bits.

AudioPoetry

Cut Off

By R/B Mertz May 11, 2022

The last man who touched my tits cut them off

Poetry

In the Field of the Dead

By Luisa Muradyan May 4, 2022

I have brought the wrong kind of sandwiches / and yes, I know this poem is supposed to bring us there

Family & Relationships

AudioPoetry

Vigilance

By H. R. Webster April 27, 2022

The hottest summer on record I couldn’t open the windows.

Poetry

Contemporary Utopia

By Ra’ad Abdulqadir, translated by Mona Kareem April 20, 2022

Skilled carpenters / excellent mechanics / energized farmers / fierce fighters

Labor

AudioPoetry

AFTER SEVEN YEARS I’M HOME AGAIN & ANIMAL AS EVER

By Despy Boutris April 14, 2022

I think back / to childhood— // to this state / & its former rainfall

Poetry

the wind would not stop

Xiao Xi 小西, translated by Yilin Wang April 6, 2022

a child licks the candy wrapper; the treat has fallen into the mud.

AudioPoetry

Girl from

By Vandana Khanna March 30, 2022

I tell the oracles that no one has touched / me, that plenty have looked, drunk their fill / on my (   ).

Gender

AudioPoetry

Without Them

By Bernardo Wade March 23, 2022

Thirsty / doesn’t describe what we’re looking for, / yet for some it means desperate for another’s touch.

Climate & Environment

AudioPoetry

A Barn of Many Languages

By Saddiq Dzukogi March 16, 2022

my tongue is at war with a new language

Poetry

With a pair of wolves I walk over the stones

By Khrystia Vengryniuk, translated by Dmytro Kyyan March 11, 2022

With a pair of wolves I walk over the stones. / Clouds are pressing on my shoulders,

Poetry

Pear Snow

By Todd Dillard March 2, 2022

It’s my job to find the dead, / chauffeur them back to their plots.

AudioPoetry

Tenement

By Kellam Ayres February 23, 2022

I’d been undoing myself for years. / Why would this day be any different?

Bodies & Nature