Poetry

Four Romanian Poems— Eliza Macadan

Translated from the Romanian by Iuliana Pittman    Image used for representation.  I dream again, it snowsI break open ‘till the endbruised, I look downI’m losing all battles with sleepI kiss my father’s…...
Italian poems with imageries of rain by Annelisa Alleva

The Downpour & Other Poems— Annelisa Alleva

Translated from the Italian by Elena Buia Rutt    Image used for representation.   The Downpour  In the morning no light penetrated through the shuttersthe sky was looming darkWe went out with…...
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The Past Indefinite & Other Poems— Lidija Dimkovska

Translated from the Macedonian by Ljubica Arsovska and Patricia Marsh   Image used for representation.  The Past Indefinite  Life is everything that happensbetween tomorrow and yesterday.My grandmother with big pans of wateropening the…...
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Two Hindi Poems— Anamika

Translated from the Hindi by Moulinath Goswami    Image used for representation.  Uncalled For  In my treasurymy mother had left mea sackful of ‘next birth’and seven cartons of ‘previous birth’. The…...
Six hopeful French poems about nature and humans by Tanella Boni

Unpublished French Poems— Tanella Boni

Translated from the French by Patrick Williamson    Image used for representation  It's a paper suna sun adorned with big dreamsthat you’ll open at dawnamong your singing wordsthe memory of the…...

Crystal & Other Poems— Salih Bolat

Translated from the Turkish by Gökçenur Ç and Neil P. Doherty   Image used for representation   We'll Come we'll come with the songsa forest sings asit burns. our voices will be scatteredon…...
Three Italian poems evoking surrealism by Diego Valeri

Time Dies & Other Poems— Diego Valeri

Translated from the Italian by Laura Valeri    Time Dies  High above the hills, the flaming space of a dispersed sunset where a faint topaz moon inscribes an arc and fades hoary. Grottos of shadow…...
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Two Hindi Poems— Dr. Kumar Vishwas

Translated from the Hindi by Moulinath Goswami   Do Not Grieve  Sartre!You worry about human existencedon't you?Do not grieve philosopherI shall explain to youmomentswith full self-consciousnessI shall show you the real pictureof the triumphanthuman race—along the edges…...
Four existential Bengali poems by Sudip Bose

The Phantom & Other Poems— Sudip Bose

Translated from the Bengali by Aritra Chatterjee    Raj Kumar Singh  And sometimes the girls do slip and become lonely. On such solitary nights, they rehearse their steps behind the doors. Down the stairs, in…...