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

Shira Wolfe on <em>Jugoslovenska Kinoteka</em>
1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By SHIRA WOLFE

Shira Wolfe on Jugoslovenska Kinoteka

1 NOVEMBER 2025 • By SHIRA WOLFE

Shira Wolfe on Jugoslovenska Kinoteka

Shira Wolfe's cinematic poetry reads like scenes from a movie, describing a period of her life spent in Belgrade...

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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, and nature.

21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By IRMA PINEDA

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

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

Iranian American poet Annahita Mahdavi West presents two poems, "Exile" and "City of War" from her book "Dusty Relic."

19 DECEMBER 2024 • By ANNAHITA MAHDAVI WEST

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 a car accident.

19 DECEMBER 2024 • By DARIUS ATEFAT-PECKHAM

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

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

24 NOVEMBER 2024 • By GREGORY PARDLO

Four poems from Modern Poetry of Pakistan

The first anthology of its kind to appear in English, "Modern Poetry of Pakistan" brings together many poetic traditions indigenous to Pakistan.

15 OCTOBER 2024 • By TMR

Waqas Khwaja—Two Poems from No One Waits for the Train

The poetry of Waqas Khwaja captures in image, narrative voice, and personal memory the terrible beauty of an innocence now lost.

15 OCTOBER 2024 • By WAQAS KHWAJA
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