In anticipation of TMR 58 • MOTHER TONGUE, this new poem explores the painful self-silencing of a language.
READ MOREThe 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 KHWAJARooja Mohassessey presents two poems from her debut collection, "When Your Sky Runs Into Mine" from Elixir Press.
15 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By ROOJA MOHASSESSYKimiko Hahn presents two poems from her forthcoming collection, "The Ghost Forest: New and Selected Poems" from W.W. Norton.
15 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By KIMIKO HAHNPoet 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 KERAMATISalvadoran poet Alexandra Lytton Regalado presents two poems from her latest collection, "Relinquenda," a National Poetry Series winner.
18 AUGUST 2024 • By ALEXANDRA LYTTON REGALADOHedy Habra presents two poems from her fourth collection, "Or Did You Ever See the Other Side?"
15 JULY 2024 • By HEDY HABRATranslators Erfan Mojib and Gary Gach present poetry from Hafez, Iran's celebrated 14th century Persian lyric poet.
15 JULY 2024 • By ERFAN MOJIBSomaia 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 RAMISHPoet 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