In anticipation of TMR 58 • MOTHER TONGUE, this new poem explores the painful self-silencing of a language.
READ MOREHeartbreak 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 MURADIFar 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 SOLIMANSomali American poet Ladan Osman presents poems "The Sea Fell on My House" and "Landscape Genocide."
2 APRIL 2024 • By LADAN OSMANRomanian American poet Alina Stefanescu presents her poems "Playing Possum" and "My Polish Child."
2 APRIL 2024 • By ALINA STEFANESCUSyrian poet in Paris presents two poems in Hélène Cardona's translation from the French from "The Abduction."
3 MARCH 2024 • By MARAM AL-MASRIOmar Sakr presents his thoughts along with two poems from his collection, "The Lost Arabs."
3 MARCH 2024 • By OMAR SAKRMajda Gama shares with Poetry Markaz two poems from her award-winning book "The Call of Paradise."
4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By MAJDA GAMAA Syrian and Swedish poet of Palestinian heritage, Ghayath Almadhoun lives between Stockhold and Berlin.
4 FEBRUARY 2024 • By GHAYATH AL MADHOUNAfter fighting in Iraq, and publishing "Here, Bullet," Brian Turner committed his life to poetry, and has a great deal to show for it.
14 JANUARY 2024 • By BRIAN TURNER
