Four poems from Modern Poetry of Pakistan
The first anthology of its kind to appear in English, "Modern Poetry of Pakistan" brings together many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan.
Poetry Markaz
Waqas Khwaja—Two Poems from No One Waits for the Train
The poetry of Waqas Khwaja captures in image, narrative voice, and personal memory the terrible beauty of an innocence now lost.
Rooja Mohassessy Presents 2 Poems from When Your Sky Runs Into Mine
Rooja Mohassessey presents two poems from her debut collection, "When Your Sky Runs Into Mine" from Elixir Press.
Kimiko Hahn Shares Two Poems from The Ghost Forest
Kimiko Hahn presents two poems from her forthcoming collection, "The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems" from W.W. Norton.
Two Poems from Saba Keramati
Poet Saba Keramati explores multiraciality and exile alongside her uniquely American origin as the only child of political refugees from China and Iran.
Two Poems by Alexandra Lytton Regalado
Salvadoran poet Alexandra Lytton Regalado presents two poems from her latest collection, "Relinquenda," a National Poetry Series winner.
Poet Hedy Habra
Hedy Habra presents two poems from her fourth collection, "Or Did You Ever See the Other Side?"
Hafez, Iran’s Revered Poet, trans. Erfan Mojib & Gary Gach
Translators Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach present poetry from Hafez, Iran's celebrated 14th century Persian lyric poet.
Three Poems by Somaia Ramish
Somaia Ramish's poems, originally in Persian, decry violence against women, underage or forced marriage, poverty and the impact of extremism and war.
Two Poems by Michael Waters
Poet Michael Water's work is "novelistic in depth and reach, elegiac in its embrace of the living and the dead, raw in its fraught vulnerability."
Sahar Muradi presents two poems from OCTOBERS
Heartbreak and echoes, as a poet recalls the US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death of her father, the sudden end of a love, and the birth of her daughter.
Moheb Soliman presents two poems from HOMES
Far from his first country, a poet maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky North Shore of Minnesota to the Thousand Islands of eastern Ontario.
Two Poems from Ladan Osman
Somali American poet Ladan Osman presents poems "The Sea Fell on My House" and "Landscape Genocide."
Two Poems from Alina Stefanescu
Romanian American poet Alina Stefanescu presents her poems "Playing Possum" and "My Polish Child."
Two Poems from Maram Al-Masri
Syrian poet in Paris presents two poems in Hélène Cardona's translation from the French from "The Abduction."