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Welcome to Poetry Markaz, where we bring you not only poems but also the poets themselves.

Poet Christopher Merrill on <em>Flares</em>, a book of prose poems.
31 AUGUST, 2025 • By CHRISTOPHER MERRILL

Poet Christopher Merrill on Flares, a book of prose poems.

31 AUGUST, 2025 • By CHRISTOPHER MERRILL

Poet Christopher Merrill on Flares, a book of prose poems.

Christopher Merrill "is one of the most gifted, audacious, and accomplished poets of an extraordinary rich generation."—W. S. Merwin

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Kimiko Hahn Shares Two Poems from The Ghost Forest

Kimiko Hahn presents two poems from her forthcoming collection, "The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems" from W.W. Norton.

15 SEPTEMBER, 2024 • By KIMIKO HAHN

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.

18 AUGUST, 2024 • By SABA KERAMATI

Two Poems by Alexandra Lytton Regalado

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

18 AUGUST, 2024 • By ALEXANDRA LYTTON REGALADO

Poet Hedy Habra

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

15 JULY, 2024 • By HEDY HABRA

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.

15 JULY, 2024 • By ERFAN MOJIB

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.

12 JUNE, 2024 • By SOMAIA RAMISH

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."

12 JUNE, 2024 • By MICHAEL WATERS

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.

8 MAY, 2024 • By SAHAR MURADI

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.

8 MAY, 2024 • By MOHEB SOLIMAN
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