Poetry

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
Gregory Pardlo presents Two Poems

Gregory Pardlo presents Two Poems

Pulitzer Prize winning poet Gregory Pardlo presents two poems from his collection "Spectral Evidence."

24 NOVEMBER 2024 • By Gregory Pardlo
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