Poetry

An Emptiness Yet to Come

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor September 17, 2025

The omen of your absence remains in the halls / an emptiness yet to come, a muteness marking the end of your words

Poetry

The Sad Ballad of Wyckoff

By José Mármol translated by Nathalie Handal, with Eileen O’Connor September 17, 2025

Like the sea, tragedy / knows no fatigue, there is no rest in its mysteries.

Poetry

Colophon II

By Sylvie Kandé, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson September 17, 2025

Mics and cameras line up / on the threshold like spikes.

Poetry

Visitation

By Sylvie Kandé, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson September 17, 2025

her face / to the cutting edge of the blade / The scar I tell you

Poetry

Waltz of Stone

By Sylvie Kandé, translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson September 17, 2025

Pause between two claps of thunder The artist makes the most of it to belt out his song

Poetry

Darkness

By Danijel Dragojević August 15, 2025

I ask the wise and quiet painter Oskar / Herman what he thinks happens later. Darkness, darkness, he replies readily.

Poetry

Freedom

By Danijel Dragojević August 15, 2025

chasing that fleeting moment of freedom – so ripe and glistening

Poetry

Through the opening on the deck

By Danijel Dragojević August 15, 2025

One part of the machinery grabs the other lulling it / They communicate like pictures for the blind.

Poetry

Spider Flags

By Dragana Tripković August 15, 2025

In parades of work, and parades of hope / dislocated from their own beings / the actors played their roles in the streets

Poetry

Hymn to Killing

By Tomica Bajsić August 15, 2025

like angels / entering the plexuses of saints

Poetry

Rites of Spring

By Tomica Bajsić August 15, 2025

For a second it seems like we're all made of sun

Poetry

With Your Hair Wet

By Jovica Ivanovski August 15, 2025

Don’t go out with your hair wet / you might catch a cold.

Poetry

On the Train to Cascais

By Damir Šodan, Translated from Croatian by James Meetze August 15, 2025

an Atlantean as beautiful / as the body of her slippery language,

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.

Black and white image of shadows of a window pane and a hand reaching outward.

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

Audio Poetry

Good

By Robin Myers February 5, 2024

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

Boiling water pours into a pour-over coffee maker

Audio Poetry

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.

New York City train station with a train loading at the platform

Poetry

The Rules

By Kyle Carrero Lopez February 5, 2024

In all things art, put quality first.

Image of the inside of a cave, sand on the ground.

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

Audio Poetry

Good Mourning Palestine

By Samah Serour Fadil January 16, 2024

Gooood Mourning Pa-les-tiiiiiiiiiine!

Silhouette of a crowd of people wielding swords against a fiery background, as if to suggest war.

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

Photograph of the inside of Ristretto Coffee Lab in Gaza. Picture taken by Emad El Byed.

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

A fly sits on edge of a white flower's petal against a blurry green background.

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

Line illustration made up of dense black-and-white lines, depicting a person in the foreground looking toward a silhouetted figure in the background. Illustration by Anne LeGuern.

Poetry

The Robert Poems

By S. Yarberry December 11, 2023

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

Anthologia

Audio Poetry

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.

Audio Poetry

[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.

An illustration of two human silhouettes against a blue background.

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

Audio Poetry

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

Audio Poetry

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.

Education Race

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,

A black and white illustration of a series of horizontal, overlapping waves.

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 & Oceania Conflict

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

Essay Poetry

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

A series of yellow lines against a dark background.

Audio Poetry

Closure

By Omotara James June 5, 2023

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

A human figure leans beyond a curtain of vertical lines in a black-and-white illustration.

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

Audio Poetry

Abstraction

By Lindsay Turner May 1, 2023

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

Audio Poetry

Infix

By Chris Santiago May 1, 2023

What happens when fantastic / becomes fan-fucking-tastic

Audio Poetry

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

Audio Poetry

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

Audio Poetry

I Want, Still

By Dure Ahmed April 17, 2023

Today I am empty, fasting till sundown

Anthologia

Poetry The 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

Audio Poetry

Paper Hummingbirds

By Myronn Hardy April 5, 2023

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

Audio Poetry

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

Audio Poetry

From Guerrilla Blooms

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

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

Audio Poetry

In-N-Out for Iftar

By Tamer Mostafa March 20, 2023

The car in front stalls

Audio Poetry

Ism

By Sarah Ghazal Ali March 20, 2023

The name of God is sufficient / for me.

Religion

Audio Poetry

From Here

By Edil Hassan March 20, 2023

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

Audio Poetry

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.