poetry in translation

Irma Pineda: Two Poems in Spanish, Zapotec and English

Irma Pineda: Two Poems in Spanish, Zapotec and English

Irma Pineda's poems evoke tragedy and celebrate the ways in which the human is built from dream, tradition,...

21 FEBRUARY 2025 • By irma pineda
No Place to Be: On Wadih Saadeh’s A Horse at the Door

No Place to Be: On Wadih Saadeh’s A Horse at the Door

Alex Tan reviews the new chronology of poems from Lebanon's bard of war and exile, Wadih Saadeh, translated...

24 JANUARY 2025 • By Alex Tan
Two Poems by Efe Duyan

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
ADONIS in Translation—Kareem Abu-Zeid with Ivan Eubanks

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
The Art of Remembrance in Abacus of Loss

The Art of Remembrance in Abacus of Loss

Sherine Elbanhawy lives in the pages of a memoir in verse and finds herself reluctant to leave, identifying...

15 MARCH 2022 • By Sherine Elbanhawy
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