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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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Poet Farnaz Fatemi

Farnaz Fatemi is an Iranian American poet in California whose book "Sister Tongue" won the 2021 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize.

5 MARCH 2023 • By FARNAZ FATEMI

Poet Erik Lindner, Words Are the Worst

Erik Lindner is a Dutch poet whose "Words are the Worst" was shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry.

5 MARCH 2023 • By ERIK LINDNER

Dunya Mikhail Knows Her Poetry Will Not Save You

Dunya Mikhail is a UNESCO Sharjah Prize for Arab Culture laureate who has also won a UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing.

5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By DUNYA MIKHAIL

Poet Mihaela Moscaliuc—a “Permanent Immigrant”

Immigrant poet Mihaela Muscaliuc has wandered half her life, far afield from her native Romania, and is always in motion.

5 FEBRUARY 2023 • By MIHAELA MOSCALIUC

Two Poems From Desert Songs by Yahia Lababidi

When he lived in Cairo, poet Yahia Lababidi would periodically head to the desert; Desert Songis the result.

15 DECEMBER 2022 • By YAHIA LABABIDI

Three Poems by Tishani Doshi

Madras, Indian-born poet, writer, and dancer Tishani Doshi presents three of her latest poems.

15 DECEMBER 2022 • By TISHANI DOSHI

5 Poems & a Video—Essential Voices: Poetry of Iran and Its Diaspora

Poems from Iranian poets in Iran and diaspora, from a new anthology edited by Christopher Nelson and introduced by Kaveh Bassiri.

15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By TMR

Two Poems from Quebec’s Nicole Brossard

Our poetry editor, Sholeh Wolpé, has selected two poems from the new collection from one of Canada's most lauded poets.

15 NOVEMBER 2022 • By TMR

Faces Hidden in the Dust by Ghalib—Two Ghazals

Tony Barnstone and Bilal Shaw present their book of Ghabib ghazals, translated from the Urdu.

16 OCTOBER 2022 • By TONY BARNSTONE
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