Poetry

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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Two Poems by Efe Duyan

Turkish poet Efe Duyan presents two poems from his collection "The Behavior of Words."

22 DECEMBER 2023 • By EFE DUYAN

Two Poems by Samantha Thornhill

Samantha Thornill, an American poet of Trinidadian-Tobago origin, shares two poems from her collection, "The Animated Universe."

22 DECEMBER 2023 • By SAMANTHA THORNHILL

Poet Ahmad Almallah

Poet and writer Ahmad Almallah grew up in Bethlehem and presently makes his home in Philadelphia.

9 NOVEMBER 2023 • By AHMAD ALMALLAH

ADONIS in Translation—Kareem Abu-Zeid with Ivan Eubanks

Translator Kareem Abu-Zeid talks about the recent New Directions volume of the translated poems of Syrian maestro Adonis.

9 NOVEMBER 2023 • By KAREEM JAMES ABU-ZEID

Home: New Arabic Poems in Translation

Bilingual poems, in Arabic and English, from Iman Mersal (Egypt), Ines Abassi (Tunisia) and Ashjan Hendi (Saudi Arabia).

11 OCTOBER 2023 • By SARAH COOLIDGE

Albanian Poet Luljeta Lleshanaku

Poetry Markaz presents Albanian poet Luljeta Lleshanaku with two poems from her latest book of poetry available in English.

11 OCTOBER 2023 • By LULJETA LLESHANAKU

Andal—Three Poems Translated by Ravi Shankar

Devotional poems in Tamil by Andal, a poet as beloved in India as Rumi is around the world.

12 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By RAVI SHANKAR

Allen C. Jones—Two Poems from Son of a Cult

A child grows up in a Northern California cult — a close-knit community of 400 people who seek to live an ideal, even utopian life.

12 SEPTEMBER 2023 • By ALLEN C JONES

Three Poems from Pantea Amin Tofangchi’s Glazed With War

Pantea Amin Tofangchi grew up in poetry, war, death, conflict, beauty, hatred, love, and censorship all at the same time. She was eight when the Iran‑Iraq War started and in […]

3 AUGUST 2023 • By PANTEA AMIN TOFANGCHI
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