Poetry

The Language of Denial and Other Poems— Jyoti Chawla

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY MOULINATH GOSWAMI   My Daughter's Piggy BankMy daughter wakes up every morningand religiously drops a coin in her piggy bankHer face flowers with an intensely innocent smileat the jingle of the coinsShe…...
Petar Matović, Sleep Is Coming with Axes

Sleep Is Coming with Axes & Other Poems— Petar Matović

TRANSLATED FROM THE SERBIAN BY MARIJA BERGAM PELLICANI Image Used For Representation   Sleep Is Coming with Axes   We´ll become inseparable likea tired warrior and the pursuingsleep. All the rivers…...
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Road & Other Poems— Yatish Kumar

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY SHUBHA SUNDAR GHOSH Image Used For Representation  ROAD   I saw one dream pecking the body of another.I were to shift the lines within my palms but saw…...
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Refrain In The Days Of Corona— Habib TENGOUR

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY PIERRE JORIS Image Used For Representation   REFRAIN IN THE DAYS OF CORONA  HaHaHa covid 19     HURRAH       BRAVO    what a…...

Kaido Racers and Other Poems— Dumitru Fanfarov

TRANSLATED FROM THE ROMANIAN BY THE AUTHOR     Nervous Tics he was curious about how those like him wrote their versesan emotional commotion an anomaly in behaviorsomething incomprehensible for those who see poetry as anintellectual producthe…...
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Confession & Other Poems— Saswati Sanyal

TRANSLATED FROM THE BENGALI BY OWSHNIK GHOSH Image Used For Representation   Confession   I was in search of it.It's smell brought me here.... The stairs are coiled like a snake.The lamp had…...
Romanian poems

Preparatory & Other Poems— Robert Șerban

TRANSLATED FROM THE ROMANIAN BY LIDIA VIANU AND ANNE STEWART Image Used For Representation  Preparatory I pluck wordsout of the poemas stubbornly asmy grandfather used his axeto shave slivers of woodfrom a poletill…...

Golden Moments and Other Poems— Nasera Sharma

TRANSLATED FROM THE HINDI BY MOULINATH GOSWAMI Whether I Am a Part of ItWhether I am a part of it or notI am nevertheless an eyewitness of this piece of time!Years back, the pregnant young womanslumped…...

Solitary Atlas And Other Poems— Şükrü Erbaş

TRANSLATED FROM THE TUKISH BY NEIL P. DOHERTY AND GÖKÇENUR Ç.   Solitary Atlas Silence. Silence. Silence. Those hours when god becomes manThose hours when the leaves mouth prayersThose hours when dreams touch the worldThose…...