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Poetry

23 August, 2024 • Eman Quotah

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.

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18 August, 2024 • Saba Keramati

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.

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18 August, 2024 • Alexandra Lytton Regalado

Two Poems by Alexandra Lytton Regalado

Salvadoran poet Alexandra Lytton Regalado presents two poems from her latest collection, "Relinquenda," a National Poetry Series winner.

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16 August, 2024 • Sahar Rabah, Ammiel Alcalay

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.

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9 August, 2024 • Zêdan Xelef

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.

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9 August, 2024 • Jordan Elgrably

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."

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15 July, 2024 • Hedy Habra

Poet Hedy Habra

Hedy Habra presents two poems from her fourth collection, "Or Did You Ever See the Other Side?"

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15 July, 2024 • Erfan Mojib, Gary Gach

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.

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12 June, 2024 • Somaia Ramish

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.

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12 June, 2024 • Michael Waters

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."

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7 June, 2024 • William Gourlay

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.

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8 May, 2024 • Sahar Muradi

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.

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8 May, 2024 • Moheb Soliman

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.

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2 April, 2024 • Ladan Osman

Two Poems from Ladan Osman

Somali American poet Ladan Osman presents poems "The Sea Fell on My House" and "Landscape Genocide."

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2 April, 2024 • Alina Stefanescu

Two Poems from Alina Stefanescu

Romanian American poet Alina Stefanescu presents her poems "Playing Possum" and "My Polish Child."

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