Poetry

There are nights that escape

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call June 17, 2025

There are nights so long / so very long / they could form rivers of tears

Poetry

This is war

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call June 17, 2025

so all the birds would flee

Poetry

Death’s night won’t come gently

By Irma Pineda, translated by Wendy Call June 17, 2025

you will hear my ancestors’ voices / piercing your peace

Poetry

Ileya

By Adedayo Agarau June 17, 2025

With feathers in his throat, Baba Ngani Agba opens the morning. In that record, he and his apala band sing about kindreds.

Poetry

Entrance

By Adedayo Agarau June 17, 2025

in the dark / bruised bones apologize to flesh

Poetry

Wind

By Adedayo Agarau June 17, 2025

It could be my ghost finding / the touch of its mother in a house where the doors are / shutting against the portals of grief. I could be coming / through the window as wind.

Poetry

to write by chance the whiteness

By Annita Costa Malufe, translated from the Portuguese by Janet Hendrickson May 19, 2025

From When I’m Not Around (Quando não estou por perto).

Poetry

I don’t want to come back here

By Annita Costa Malufe, translated from the Portuguese by Janet Hendrickson May 19, 2025

From When I’m Not Around (Quando não estou por perto).

Poetry

I fall in love only with the furthest

By Annita Costa Malufe, translated from the Portuguese by Janet Hendrickson May 19, 2025

From When I’m Not Around (Quando não estou por perto).

Poetry

Jongo & Adriano

By Yhuri Cruz and Montana Ray May 19, 2025

In the entrails of Rio’s brush, a flight is in process: Jongo, African of Angola, and Adriano, a Brazilian Criollo, risk the dense forest seeking the freedom to be

Poetry

Midnight Service

By Esther Lin April 15, 2025

Sixty voices seesawed in the song / of tongues. Sixty bodies gripped

Poetry

Lucky Anointing Oil

By Afua Ansong April 15, 2025

I have learned a good story can keep you alive.

Poetry

David

By Afua Ansong April 15, 2025

His dance, an abomination / to man but God plays the tune.

Poetry

Black Girl in Wyoming-after Ross Gay

By Afua Ansong April 15, 2025

on her skin, tone, a mixture of sienna and copper / a bit shy of the rust in the dust of earth

Poetry

Because I Was Protestant

By Esther Lin April 15, 2025

Love without suffering / this wasted my talents

Poetry

A Citadel in Queens

By Esther Lin April 15, 2025

By air, earth, fire, and blood in my veins, I / know something of the devil

Poetry

In Costa Rica, My Father Speaks

By Rosa Castellano March 17, 2025

Her voice / was jazz, like yours when you’re telling stories

Poetry

Snapshot in the Kitchen for Minerva Margarita

Andrea Cote Botero Translated from Spanish by Craig Epplin March 17, 2025

and boys / that barely cross the threshold / and become men

Poetry

Your Name

Andrea Cote Botero Translated from Spanish by Craig Epplin March 17, 2025

I’ll leave a note in the weeds / I know nothing about the others

Poetry

Animal

Andrea Cote Botero Translated from Spanish by Craig Epplin March 17, 2025

But here, you know, I ride the train like straddling / the back of something, with others right behind

Poetry

Call

By Samira Negrouche, translated from French by Nathalie Handal February 19, 2025

language springs from all languages / it is from absence that language is born.

Poetry

Sleepwalker

By Giovanni Quessep, translated from Spanish by Nathalie Handal February 19, 2025

What a strange land this is / I don't remember the names of the birds

Poetry

We planted a river

By Samira Negrouche, translated from French by Nathalie Handal February 19, 2025

We planted a man / his destiny suspended

Poetry

When He Said His Name

By Giovanni Quessep, translated from Spanish by Nathalie Handal February 19, 2025

the white labyrinth of love moved my flesh / and grew the time of guilt

Poetry

Being is Not a Fable

By Giovanni Quessep, translated from Spanish by Nathalie Handal February 19, 2025

like destiny, in the dusk of the wind

Poetry

Requiem for my ancestor’s fig tree

By Samira Negrouche, translated from French by Nathalie Handal February 16, 2025

Which hand sowed the ashes / where the ancestor planted life

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