Chairs Photo Series & Other Poems— Fabián O. Iriarte
Translated from the Spanish by Donny Smith Chairs Photo Series like snares that inexorable keep ustied to the passage of time seated on the sphinxlike worthless riddles we wonder what our nextconundrum will be…...
Flowers Strewn On The Ground & Other Poems— Shankar Lahiri
Translated from the Bengali by Aritra Sanyal Hog A hog, fleshy and smooth. A woman …...
Shadows Pass Us By & Other Poems— Nikola Mazdirov
Shadows Pass Us By We’ll meet one day,like a paper boat anda watermelon that’s been cooling in the river.The anxiety of the world willbe with us. Our palmswill eclipse the sun and we’llapproach each other holding lanterns.…...
Tear Curtains & Other Poems— Rafeeq Ahamed
Translated from the Malayalam by K.M. Ajir Kutty Tear Curtain Be seated, saying thus the poet went insideOn the table were an unopened letter,an unfinished poem,and a cup of coffee gone cold.And in the ashtray…...
Five Classical Chinese Poems— Guanxiu
Translated from the Classical Chinese by Xiaoqiu Qiu Thinking About Dao Priest Zhiti The orioles in my courtyard chirped a hundred times,sitting by the green water, I thought about my dear friend.If only we lived…...
Another Rest & Other Poems— Antonia Pozzi
Translated from the Italian by Amy Newman Another Rest —For LB Lean…...
A Poetic Lave— A Malayalam Poem by Anna Joy
Translated from the Malayalam by Nithya Mariam John The shower was on,and I was ruminating on the poem.That tiny frogwhich sat nonchalantly on the bathroom pipe,croaked at me the first verse. As I bathed, thinking again…...
The Elegy & Other Poems— Amalia Guglielminetti
Translated from the Italian by Alani Hicks-Bartlett The Elegy I will sing the elegy of the heart that never sleeps:my rhythm is uniform, my voice monotonous. It is the gathered nocturnal voice of…...
The Dreams of Scipio— A Spanish poem by Luis Cruz
Translated from the Spanish by James Storbakken I imagined,Yes, I imagined I was in a temple whereEverything known fit perfectly into its place. Each object against anotherIn essence, sweat, pestilence, and vileness;The pure and the virtues…...