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 The Perfect Place for a Homeland By Dmitry Blizniuk, translated by Sergey Gerasimov June 5, 2023 Autumn. The perfect place for a homeland —
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 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
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 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.
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 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
Poetry Speaking Alone By Tristan Tzara, translated by Heather Green September 7, 2022 senseless here’s the man with the crystal contractions / with the rumor of sand with a doll’s past tense
Poetry In the Middle of August, I Saw the Sky By Romeo Oriogun August 10, 2022 One morning, on a wet day during the week... Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry Irrawaddy Delta, 2016 By Maung Day August 3, 2022 A grain of rice cannot feed a hundred mouths
Poetry Hypertension By Courtney Faye Taylor July 27, 2022 In the early 1870s, at the mouth of the Big Bend tunnel, / John Henry beat a mechanical steam drill in a “steel driving” / contest. Race
AudioPoetry Search Party By Steven Espada Dawson July 20, 2022 Together, above the kitchen sink, we peeled / a hundred russets. Family & Relationships
AudioPoetry Bringing Up Mother By Idman Omar July 13, 2022 I was not dressed correctly when / motherhood interviewed me. Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry If I Say My Body Is Asian Does This Poem Disappear By Eugenia Leigh June 29, 2022 Another poem mannequin- / Ing the body. Bodies & Nature
Poetry from Beyond the Somber Station By Liliana Ponce, translated by Michael Martin Shea June 22, 2022 Thought reduced to ashes — / in the golden sky tracing lines.
AudioPoetry The Christmas Poem By Jackson Holbert June 15, 2022 there are thousands of days left / tens of thousands if we’re lucky Arts & Culture
AudioPoetry A Poem Is a Landscape of the Mind By Megan Pinto June 8, 2022 It was the winter of my life. Afternoons, / I watched light fade / from the faces of brownstones.
AudioPoetry When the Sky Is Closed By Mark Yakich June 1, 2022 Not even children who brave the street / Will notice the robins, mistaking them for nightingales.
Poetry Hope Dissidents Mona Kareem, translated by Sara Elkamel May 25, 2022 When we die, / the cemetery keeper tires / of surveilling our graves’ windows.
Poetry One Hundred Percent House By Shin Hae-uk, translated by Spencer Lee-Lenfield May 18, 2022 A house where no one lives / needs someone to draw it full of glass, / then smash that glass to bits.
Poetry In the Field of the Dead By Luisa Muradyan May 4, 2022 I have brought the wrong kind of sandwiches / and yes, I know this poem is supposed to bring us there Family & Relationships
AudioPoetry Vigilance By H. R. Webster April 27, 2022 The hottest summer on record I couldn’t open the windows.
Poetry Contemporary Utopia By Ra’ad Abdulqadir, translated by Mona Kareem April 20, 2022 Skilled carpenters / excellent mechanics / energized farmers / fierce fighters Labor
AudioPoetry AFTER SEVEN YEARS I’M HOME AGAIN & ANIMAL AS EVER By Despy Boutris April 14, 2022 I think back / to childhood— // to this state / & its former rainfall
Poetry the wind would not stop Xiao Xi 小西, translated by Yilin Wang April 6, 2022 a child licks the candy wrapper; the treat has fallen into the mud.
AudioPoetry Girl from By Vandana Khanna March 30, 2022 I tell the oracles that no one has touched / me, that plenty have looked, drunk their fill / on my ( ). Gender
AudioPoetry Without Them By Bernardo Wade March 23, 2022 Thirsty / doesn’t describe what we’re looking for, / yet for some it means desperate for another’s touch. Climate & Environment
AudioPoetry A Barn of Many Languages By Saddiq Dzukogi March 16, 2022 my tongue is at war with a new language
Poetry With a pair of wolves I walk over the stones By Khrystia Vengryniuk, translated by Dmytro Kyyan March 11, 2022 With a pair of wolves I walk over the stones. / Clouds are pressing on my shoulders,
Poetry Pear Snow By Todd Dillard March 2, 2022 It’s my job to find the dead, / chauffeur them back to their plots.
AudioPoetry Tenement By Kellam Ayres February 23, 2022 I’d been undoing myself for years. / Why would this day be any different? Bodies & Nature
Poetry Bomb that tree line back about a hundred yards. Give me room to breathe. By Cathy Linh Che February 16, 2022 Daughter, I think you embellish. A bomb / is nothing like a slammed door.
Poetry After the Offering Ritual, Cain Carries Abel Home By I.S. Jones February 9, 2022 Violence is a failure of communication. / The shoulder severed from the dream / of the socket.
Poetry from and when the light comes it will be fantastic Kristin Berget, translated from the Norwegian by Kathleen Maris Paltrineri February 2, 2022 This landscape snares us with its dry stalks
AudioPoetry Swing By N. K. A. Prempeh January 26, 2022 At some point, fathers stop unraveling / in private, don’t they?
AudioPoetry Extended Release By Lesley Wheeler January 19, 2022 I won’t know how to daughter till it’s done.
Poetry When You Land at Ben-Gurion Airport By Issam Zineh January 12, 2022 a convocation of desert eagles rises from your spleen, / each one carrying a stone
Poetry when I say hello to the oldest apples By Ina Cariño December 6, 2021 they tell me / a mountain is good for me Dirt
Poetry The Summer Your Parents Split By Kathleen Radigan December 6, 2021 All my life I never told you how quiet it was / on the dismount Dirt
Poetry Forgiveness By Ada Limón November 10, 2021 It was the winter of manatees, Captain / Rhonda and her chartered pontoon boat / floating down the Crystal River.
Poetry The Heart of Europe By Tomaž Šalamun, translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry November 4, 2021 The heart of Europe is elegant and / dead.
Poetry American Monster By Bryan Byrdlong October 28, 2021 "Thursday, I am born, / of the white glove’s lazy C-section" RaceUSA
AudioPoetry Earning Keep By Sophie Klahr October 26, 2021 “You can see the pure it-ness / of anything if you cut it right”
AudioPoetry The Daughter Myth By Vuyelwa Maluleke October 14, 2021 “Say then that I am overflowing / & nobody’s fool & did not give up"
Poetry On Being Asked What I Am Tired Of By Paul Guest October 7, 2021 The weather of course and the afternoon light / that might as well be bad milk
Poetry From Aterrizar no es regreso Xavier Valcárcel, translated by Carina del Valle Schorske September 16, 2021 “On the islands, leaving comes to seem like the natural thing to do.” Americas
Poetry Propuesta de Financiamiento para el Plan de No Hacer Nada / Funding Proposal for the Do-Nothing Plan Rubén Ramos Colon, translated by Raquel Salas Rivera September 15, 2021 “I will need a grant of a million or two. / A million or more.” Americas
Poetry Traducción / Translation Nicole Cecilia Delgado, translated by Urayoán Noel September 14, 2021 "America I spent it all and now I'm nobody.” Americas
Poetry Against Empire: A Folio of Puerto Rican Writers Raquel Salas Rivera and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado September 13, 2021 Guest editors Raquel Salas Rivera and Ricardo Alberto Maldonado introduce three writers who “counter the loneliness and exploitation of U.S. capitalism.” Americas
Poetry The Show of Growth By Nakeisha Cantzlaar August 19, 2021 "And right there and then, I showed her, I wouldn’t be of much use." PEN America DREAMing Out Loud Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry My Mom Buried a Saint in the Yard By Laura Villareal August 12, 2021 Not like you think, but yes, he’s upside down. Family & Relationships
Poetry The Night is an Eruption of Nebulas By E. Hughes August 5, 2021 A pipe is a globe of loss— the baby / has no diapers and auntie had to bring some by.
Poetry Limbs Astride, Land to Land By Rita Dove August 3, 2021 "Static pinging / at the edges of thought: the sound a wall makes / powering down.”
AudioPoetry The Women By Maggie Queeney July 29, 2021 more than the men, even. The ones who looked / like I looked. Bodies & NatureFamily & Relationships
Poetry Passing Through By Hala Alyan July 8, 2021 “Her father is dying, her father / is Beirut and Akka and a single building in this world.”
Poetry from Bodies By Max Rojas, translated from the Spanish by Zane Koss and Gerónimo Sarmiento Cruz July 1, 2021 “Like ash or nearing the fabrication of mirrors / or alcoholic drinks”
Poetry Take the Bait By Adele Elise Williams June 17, 2021 “Memory. Now that’s a thing a girl / can get behind.” Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry Metamorphic Sonnet By Eric Wang June 3, 2021 How could I not praise the Chinese grandmother / rocking her floral print tracksuit?
AudioPoetry Bulbous with an Egregious Silence By Joseph Omoh Ndukwu May 27, 2021 “while the aunties sit weaving an awful dress of effrontery / —and I wish we could be alive in several ways but this one” Family & Relationships
Poetry relapse dream By Anthony Thomas Lombardi May 20, 2021 "& when will i be emptied by what a night doesn’t promise instead of what it does” Bodies & Nature
AudioPoetry Man at Desk By Rigoberto González May 13, 2021 There’s a man who sits at his desk this evening, / bearing witness to the end of days.
Poetry Umm Kulthum Singing for the Prophet Poetry by Najwan Darwish, translated from the Arabic by Kareem James Abu-Zeid April 22, 2021 The Star of the East sings for the Prophet / while I release my song
AudioPoetry Ordnance By Steven Duong April 8, 2021 “The world is a list of things / I keep from my father.” Family & RelationshipsHistory
AudioPoetry LOS ÁNGELES By Cintia Santana March 18, 2021 We’re going to see the angels / my father says but in Spanish Family & RelationshipsHistory
Poetry Scene VI Poetry by Loisa Fenichell March 11, 2021 Of course, there was a you, and between the two of us, what were we but frightened?
Poetry A Bulldozer’s American Dream Poetry by Shangyang Fang March 4, 2021 At the construction site the bulldozer works days & nights. / No, it is the man inside who works.
Poetry No More Poetry by Subhashini Kaligotla February 16, 2021 Soon after mere seconds after he became the body
Poetry Fable Poetry by Audrey Gradzewicz January 28, 2021 Long ago, in the garden of a man who tried to kill me, / I tended watermelon, green pepper, tomatoes as blighted / as hurt.
Poetry Poem About Human Habits of Consumption That Begins with Contemplating the Walnut in My Yard Poetry by Felicia Zamora January 14, 2021 Who parted / your shell, in wedge & tear? Bodies & Nature
Poetry The Living Dead Poetry by Salgado Maranhão, translated from the Spanish by Alexis Levitin December 10, 2020 They do not think that they will disappear / into the amusement park / of nothingness.
Poetry Wave Built in the Form of Prayer Poetry by Dan Sullivan December 3, 2020 When does my body stop being a goal?