Poetry

Chronicle of My Thirty-Eighth Year

By T. De Los Reyes April 14, 2026

I want to learn about the world by looking at birds

Poetry

At Stefan Stambolov Square, Plovdiv

By Immanuel Mifsud, translated from Maltese by Ruth Ward April 14, 2026

the first date of a couple who later broke up

Poetry

The Father’s Sin

By Immanuel Mifsud, translated from Maltese by Ruth Ward April 14, 2026

I no longer understand your eyes

Poetry

a lover once asked me

By Nisrine Mbarki Ben-Ayad, translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison April 11, 2026

the way I love is the way I dream

Poetry

dragomana

By Nisrine Mbarki Ben-Ayad, translated from Dutch by Michele Hutchison April 11, 2026

your bones carry you until your longing stops

Poetry

Siren of The Tropics

By Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa March 15, 2026

My hips and bananas are glittering

Poetry

Diego de Almagro’s Shipwreck

By David Cruz, translated from the Spanish by Anthony Geist March 15, 2026

We worshipped death / until it tired

Poetry

The Emperor Jones

By Safiya Kamaria Kinshasa March 15, 2026

Last time I saw him he was wearing a baseball cap, now feathers ricochet on his head.

Poetry

Ghost

By David Cruz, translated from Spanish by Anthony Geist March 15, 2026

My soul goes out for a walk.

Poetry

Nightmare

By David Cruz, translated from the Spanish by Anthony Geist March 15, 2026

A stampede of iambic pentameters battered sonnets

Poetry

Witch Industry

By Shivanee Ramlochan February 15, 2026

Love, I am leaning into the thrust of things.

Poetry

Color Test

By Rolando Kattan, translated from the Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez February 15, 2026

Here, the green rusts out like Neruda’s autograph.

Poetry

The Translucence of Mud

By Chinaecherem Obor February 15, 2026

All flesh is shapes of water, outlets of pain

Poetry

Scissoring in the Tropics

By Shivanee Ramlochan February 15, 2026

a fist / around my own loneliness

Poetry

(EIDYIA)—THE LONG NOW, PART IX—

By James Meetze February 15, 2026

A name is not enough to define its thing.

Poetry

Insomniac’s Cartography

By Rolando Kattan, translated from the Spanish by Katherine M. Hedeen and Víctor Rodríguez Núñez February 15, 2026

A migrant heart is also an astrolabe

Poetry

(LATE-ORPHIC)—THE LONG NOW, PART XIII—

By James Meetze February 12, 2026

To study time          is to apprehend          the body

Poetry

Yosemite Bound or how a river remembers

By Jean-Pierre Rueda December 4, 2025

society's last gasp / before the mountains

Poetry

The Marble of the Soul

By Jean-Pierre Rueda December 4, 2025

quarrying the memories / from the black earth

Poetry

Wherever a heart beats for another

By Jean-Pierre Rueda December 4, 2025

each grip a prayer, each reach a victory

Poetry

My Longest Relationship

By Yolanda Castaño, translated from the Galego/Spanish by Samantha Schnee December 4, 2025

In our intimacy, there’s always one airless room.

Poetry

Suspended

By Yolanda Castaño, translated from the Galego/Spanish by Samantha Schnee December 4, 2025

Descending the stairway of lines in this poem, / in the faint voice threaded through these verses

Poetry

Peter

By Anthony Joseph October 22, 2025

green avocados were picked / still breathing / from the tree.

Poetry

Gordon Grant

By Anthony Joseph October 22, 2025

disease, too deep to retrieve / with simple stick or hands that also reach / for my daughter

Poetry

I will not be afraid

By James Sacré translated from the French by Nathalie Handal October 22, 2025

Already the poems / Have taken me

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.

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