Poems by Nasser Rabah, Amanee Izhaq and Mai Al-Nakib
Three poets pay tribute to the struggle in Gaza, the West Bank and the world over for Palestinian freedom and a future without war.
Poetry
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.
Birth in a Poem: Maram Al-Masri’s The Abduction
When a mother loses her child she can become inconsolable, living a desolate life, as she works for his return.
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.
Sahar Rabah—Two Poems From Gaza
A young poet and graduate of a Gaza university that is in ruins, Sahar Rabah looks forward to the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Rutgers.
SPECIAL KURDISH ISSUE: From Kurmanji to English, an Introduction to Selim Temo
To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from the Pinsapo Press edition.
Woe to the Conquered: Selim Temo’s Nightlands
Kurdish poetry abounds but rarely appears in English. Jordan Elgrably reviews a bilingual English-Kurdish edition of Selim Temo's "Nightlands."
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."
A Bicentennial Remembrance of Lord Byron, Among Greeks & Turks
Lord Byron, a theatrical poet, created the concept of celebrity and, with his poetry, brought the Ottoman world to European audiences.
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.