Eva Luka (Tr. James Sutherland-Smith) 6/3/25 Eva Luka (Tr. James Sutherland-Smith) 6/3/25

And Then They Saw the Minotaur’s Daughter

“Neither cheerful / nor even sad, she just stared into space.”

Irene Solà (Tr. Mara Faye Lethem) 5/13/25 Irene Solà (Tr. Mara Faye Lethem) 5/13/25

I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Toward Darkness

“She wanted to watch as Bernadeta was denied divine grace and salvation for having had so many dealings with the devil.”

Rasha Alqasim (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 5/6/25 Rasha Alqasim (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 5/6/25

Things Unrelated to Loneliness

“All these spoons, / For who?”

Mohamed Kheir (Tr. Robin Moger) 4/24/25 Mohamed Kheir (Tr. Robin Moger) 4/24/25

Sleep Phase

“Even as he climbed, he knew what he would see and refused to believe it until there it was before him.”

Karim Kattan (Tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman) 4/15/25 Karim Kattan (Tr. Jeffrey Zuckerman) 4/15/25

Salt Air

“He studied the sea, as if sizing up an enemy.”

Dalia Taha (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 4/3/25 Dalia Taha (Tr. Sara Elkamel) 4/3/25

Three Poems

“A story of two truths: light / and shadows.”

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.