Poetry

A. Van Jordan presents “The Tailor” and “HEX”

A. Van Jordan presents “The Tailor” and “HEX”

Poet A. Van Jordan presents his latest hybrid work celebrating Black youth, and examines Black lives lost to...

22 APRIL 2025 • By A. Van Jordan
An Immigrant in America: The Palace of Forty Pillars

An Immigrant in America: The Palace of Forty Pillars

A story of a self-estranged gay adolescent navigating his identity as an Armenian in Iran and later as...

18 APRIL 2025 • By Sean Casey
Insurrection of the Spirit: Algeria’s Resistance Poet Anna Gréki

Insurrection of the Spirit: Algeria’s Resistance Poet Anna Gréki

Gréki’s poetry expresses her deep love for Algeria while also serving as a powerful tribute to resistance against...

21 MARCH 2025 • By Jordan Elgrably
Irma Pineda: Two Poems in Spanish, Zapotec and English

Irma Pineda: Two Poems in Spanish, Zapotec and English

Irma Pineda's poems evoke tragedy and celebrate the ways in which the human is built from dream, tradition,...

21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By irma pineda
Sonnet Mondal: Three Poems

Sonnet Mondal: Three Poems

Celebrated Indian poet Sonnet Mondal presents work from his Copper Coin collection "An Afternoon in My Mind."

21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Sonnet Mondal
What Remains: Voice and the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad

What Remains: Voice and the Poetry of Forugh Farrokhzad

In which Farah Ahamed remembers losing her voice as a result of personal tragedy, and relates to the...

7 FEBRUARY 2025 • By Farah Ahamed
Huda Fakhreddine & Yasmeen Hanoosh: Translating Arabic & Gaza

Huda Fakhreddine & Yasmeen Hanoosh: Translating Arabic & Gaza

A conversation in which two Arabic to English translators and scholars consider language and Gaza with respect to...

17 JANUARY 2025 • By Yasmeen Hanoosh
أربع قصائد لآلاء حسانين: ديوان الحب الذي يضاعف الوحدة

أربع قصائد لآلاء حسانين: ديوان الحب الذي يضاعف الوحدة

ينقل لنا ديوان آلاء حسانين «الحب الذي يضاعف الوحدة» الحياة اليومية، والقدرة على التنبؤ بالجسد والعواطف القديمة والخام...

23 DECEMBER 2024 • By آلاء حسانين
Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Two Poems

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha: Two Poems

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha won the 2024 National Book Award for her latest collection of poems, "Something About Living."

19 DECEMBER 2024 • By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
Annahita Mahdavi West: Two Poems

Annahita Mahdavi West: Two Poems

Iranian American poet Annahita Mahdavi West presents two poems, "Exile" and "City of War" from her book "Dusty...

19 DECEMBER 2024 • By Annahita Mahdavi West
Darius Atefat-Peckham: Three Poems

Darius Atefat-Peckham: Three Poems

Darius Atefat-Peckham’s debut poetry collection, "Book of Kin," follows a boy’s coming of age in the aftermath of...

19 DECEMBER 2024 • By Darius Atefat-Peckham
Olivia Elias presents Three Poems

Olivia Elias presents Three Poems

Acclaimed French-language poet of the Palestinian diaspora, Olivia Elias probe the upheavals of the 20th and 21st centuries.

24 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Olivia Elias
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