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.
When a mother loses her child she can become inconsolable, living a desolate life, as she works for his return.
Poet Saba Keramati explores multiraciality and exile alongside her uniquely American origin as the only child of political refugees from China and Iran.
Salvadoran poet Alexandra Lytton Regalado presents two poems from her latest collection, "Relinquenda," a National Poetry Series winner.
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.
To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from the Pinsapo Press edition.
Kurdish poetry abounds but rarely appears in English. Jordan Elgrably reviews a bilingual English-Kurdish edition of Selim Temo's "Nightlands."
Hedy Habra presents two poems from her fourth collection, "Or Did You Ever See the Other Side?"
Translators Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach present poetry from Hafez, Iran's celebrated 14th century Persian lyric poet.
Somaia Ramish's poems, originally in Persian, decry violence against women, underage or forced marriage, poverty and the impact of extremism and war.
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."
Lord Byron, a theatrical poet, created the concept of celebrity and, with his poetry, brought the Ottoman world to European audiences.
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.
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.
Somali American poet Ladan Osman presents poems "The Sea Fell on My House" and "Landscape Genocide."
Romanian American poet Alina Stefanescu presents her poems "Playing Possum" and "My Polish Child."