To celebrate the forthcoming publication of Selim Temo's "Nightlands," we present an introductory essay and two poems from...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Zêdan Xelef
Kurdish poetry abounds but rarely appears in English. Jordan Elgrably reviews a bilingual English-Kurdish edition of Selim Temo's...
9 AUGUST 2024 • By Jordan Elgrably
Hedy Habra presents two poems from her fourth collection, "Or Did You Ever See the Other Side?"
15 JULY 2024 • By Hedy Habra
Translators Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach present poetry from Hafez, Iran's celebrated 14th century Persian lyric poet.
15 JULY 2024 • By Erfan Mojib
Somaia Ramish's poems, originally in Persian, decry violence against women, underage or forced marriage, poverty and the impact...
12 JUNE 2024 • By Somaia Ramish
Poet Michael Water's work is "novelistic in depth and reach, elegiac in its embrace of the living and...
12 JUNE 2024 • By Michael Waters
Lord Byron, a theatrical poet, created the concept of celebrity and, with his poetry, brought the Ottoman world...
7 JUNE 2024 • By William Gourlay
Heartbreak and echoes, as a poet recalls the US invasion and occupation of her native Afghanistan, the death...
8 MAY 2024 • By Sahar Muradi
Far from his first country, a poet maps the shoreline of the Great Lakes from the rocky North...
8 MAY 2024 • By Moheb Soliman
Somali American poet Ladan Osman presents poems "The Sea Fell on My House" and "Landscape Genocide."
2 APRIL 2024 • By Ladan Osman
Romanian American poet Alina Stefanescu presents her poems "Playing Possum" and "My Polish Child."
2 APRIL 2024 • By Alina Stefanescu
Syrian poet in Paris presents two poems in Hélène Cardona's translation from the French from "The Abduction."
3 MARCH 2024 • By Maram Al-Masri
