Poetry

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

“How to Erase an Armenian Accent in Junior High”
27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By SHAHé MANKERIAN

“How to Erase an Armenian Accent in Junior High”

27 FEBRUARY 2026 • By SHAHé MANKERIAN

“How to Erase an Armenian Accent in Junior High”

In anticipation of TMR 58 • MOTHER TONGUE, this new poem explores the painful self-silencing of a language.

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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

Rooja Mohassessy Presents 2 Poems from When Your Sky Runs Into Mine

Rooja Mohassessey presents two poems from her debut collection, "When Your Sky Runs Into Mine" from Elixir Press.

15 SEPTEMBER 2024 • By ROOJA MOHASSESSY

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
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