Yau Ching (Tr. Chenxin Jiang) 7/31/25 Yau Ching (Tr. Chenxin Jiang) 7/31/25

Highway

“A steady hand on the wheel takes an unblinking courage.”

Selma Asotić 7/8/25 Selma Asotić 7/8/25

Two Poems From Bosnia

“Write me when you can. / Skip the hellos.”

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.”

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?”

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.”

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”

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.”

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.”

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.

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

Gabÿ, Tree, Goose

Three poems.

Ingvild H. Rishøi (Tr. Caroline Waight) 8/22/24 Ingvild H. Rishøi (Tr. Caroline Waight) 8/22/24

Words of Wisdom

A poem.

Hafsah Nassir Mujalli (Tr. Sawad Hussain) 8/8/24 Hafsah Nassir Mujalli (Tr. Sawad Hussain) 8/8/24

محظوظ (“Lucky”)

A poem.

Dong Li 2/13/24 Dong Li 2/13/24

The Orange Tree

“Tiananmen Tower was flooded with the orange-red faces of the young guards. / People wandered and wasted away.”

Shakarim Qudaiberdiuly (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi, Mirgul Kali, & Ena Selimović) 1/9/24 Shakarim Qudaiberdiuly (Tr. Sabrina Jaszi, Mirgul Kali, & Ena Selimović) 1/9/24

“Youth”

An experiment in collective translation.

Myroslav Laiuk (Tr. Ostap Kin & Kate Tsurkan) 10/10/23 Myroslav Laiuk (Tr. Ostap Kin & Kate Tsurkan) 10/10/23

Wartime Poems

“Bird the Knife” and “Measure to protect cultural heritage”

Amit Chaudhuri 9/12/23 Amit Chaudhuri 9/12/23

Amazing Sleeplessness

“From that height, he gazes / not only on geographies / but histories that have come and gone”

Wendy Guerra (Tr. Nancy Naomi Carlson & Esperanza Hope Snyder) 8/1/23 Wendy Guerra (Tr. Nancy Naomi Carlson & Esperanza Hope Snyder) 8/1/23

Poems from “Delicates”

“Traveling in Reverse,” “A Face in the Crowd (Graffiti),” “Subway Map,” and “Bunk Beds”

Rania Mamoun (Tr. Yasmine Seale) 7/13/23 Rania Mamoun (Tr. Yasmine Seale) 7/13/23

Poems from “Something Evergreen Called Life”

“The River Stopped Its Flow” and “Who Am I?”

Shin Hae-uk (Tr. Spencer Lee-Lenfield) 5/30/23 Shin Hae-uk (Tr. Spencer Lee-Lenfield) 5/30/23

Debt

A poem.