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 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 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 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 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
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 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 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