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Blizniuk with his book in Ukrainian On the other side of the ashes

Untitled (you’ve died so many times…)

November 7, 2024/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2025 / Dmitry Blizniuk, translated by Yana Kane

you’ve died so many times in your dreams
that surely you can manage it once while awake.
the soul abandons the body a moment beforehand,
rising over what used to be home

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Magkano?

November 4, 2024/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2025 / mari britt

How much is the land? How
much to get fish fresh from the market
and how much for the fishermen
to feed their families? How much for
a loved one who doesn’t leave?

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Marilena Umuhoza Delli

Negretta: Racist Kisses

November 4, 2024/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2025 / Marilena Umuhoza Delli, translated by Brandon Michael Cleverly Breen

When my co-citizens tell me “why don’t you go back to where you’re from?” it’s obvious that it never crossed their mind that I’m exactly in the one country that I’ve ever known: Italy. The place where I was born and raised. The place where I made my entrance into this world, and where I intend to live every one of my days until the very end.

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I Don’t Know If You Can Hear the River

August 23, 2024/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2024 / Ximena Gómez, the author, and George Franklin co-translated this poem

It seems to be dragging its freight
like an enormous beast.

On Monday at dawn,
two children saw a body
floating in the current,

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Trauma 4DX

May 23, 2024/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2024 / Hendri Yulius Wijaya, translated by Edward Gunawan

no stalker got you under his skin
trauma acquired from cinema conglomerates
for our bodies to be more responsive
to all the vibrations and sounds from the screen
in your mind the 4DX movie theater opens its doors wide

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The Passivevoicefreeword

April 23, 2024/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2024 / John Tinneny (self-translation)

Manymuch people were lostmissedperished during the most recent fightquarrelclashes around and on the side inside of the hospital.

Collateral damageharm is expected; no biasedpartialunrequited damageharm was confirmedprovensatisfied on any particulardefinite side at all, according to unbiasedunbalanced indifferentunspecified observerswatchersspectators.

Bodies were buriedputthrown as respectfully as possible (it wasn’t possible).

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Sude Headshot

The Night Security Guard

November 27, 2023/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2024 / Emil-Iulian Sude translated by Diana Manole

we’re easy to recognize

dressed in our work uniforms.

those fellas are security guards. if you give them

something to guard they think themselves gods.

she wants to see if we have all we need

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Cihan Yurdaun

The God of Small Deaths

November 24, 2023/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2024 / Cihan Yurdaün translated by Hardy Griffin

Doğan’s lifeless body bumped into one of Istanbul’s many small docks. He had no ID on him. There were bruises and nibbles from bream, mackerel, and bluefish; in the water’s rage, the body had quickly begun to rot, and plastic bags and seaweed were wrapped around it. Fishermen, believing at first they had landed enough food to feed the extended family, reeled in a nameless son.

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Argyris Stavropoulos

Vows

June 3, 2023/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2023 / Argyris Stavropoulos, translated by Gigi Papoulias

At night, vows become ghosts.
Like in the past, they wander
the same streets and neighborhoods.
Leaves stir in trees
but the wind is still.

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Begoña Ugalde

General Cemetery

June 2, 2023/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2023 / Begoña Ugalde, translated by Sam Simon

At least it’s Violeta Parra, you say as you listen to the people above sing, “Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto.” Other times it’s been bachata, ranchera and progressive rock. We decided to put up with it, to not call the cops.

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Portrait of the poet Humberto Ak'abalHumberto Ak'abal's website

Seven Poems by Humberto Ak’abal

June 7, 2022/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2022 / Humberto Ak'abal, translated by Michael Bazzett

Humberto Ak’abal (1952-2019) was a K’iche’ Mayan poet born in Momostenango, in the western highlands of Guatemala.

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©Violette Bule

The Beatified Among the Insane

June 6, 2022/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2022 / Raquel Abend van Dalen, translated by Dillon Scalzo and Raquel Abend van Dalen

I’m that carnivorous bird
that you avoid in common curves
although you desire my maniacal choir presence
you continue to fear an extinction

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Dogs of smaller breeds (excerpt)

November 28, 2021/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2022 / Olga Hund, translated by Mark Tardi

At the entrance, a cluster of burly plants swayed in the wind. Tiny white flowers have sprung up on a pile of dead stems, and it all hums together, collapsing in on itself. Here––I’ll see it later on myself––you love plants, especially rotting or withering ones. . .

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Nguyen Thanh Hien, Author Headshot

Chronicles of a Village (excerpts)

November 26, 2021/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2022 / Nguyễn Thanh Hiện, translated by Quyên Nguyễn-Hoàng

it was a morning i will never forget, the morning i opened the door to the sound of them shouting,
let us march forward,
they always began with the same line,
the social scientists said of the onslaught of the sightless humans

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Epitácio Pais, Author Headshot

Daughter of the Soil

November 25, 2021/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2022 / Epitácio Pais, translated by Paul Melo e Castro

Moga woke with a heavy head, her eyes full of sleep and sari damp with sweat. Immediately she felt a strong urge to lie back next to her son on the mat and enjoy the drowsiness of that hot morning.But the thought of the cashews, which had gone unpicked for two days, made her spring to her feet. . .

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Reverse Mimesis

April 24, 2021/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2021 / Whitney DeVos

The small white flowers are everywhere, you know. They splinter, then splinter again. I wonder if vulnerability isn’t entirely compromised. Just yesterday someone posted a story about people who’ve jumped off the Golden Gate. And lived.
The sun rises. Everything goes on looking iconic [. . .]

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Five Messenger Pigeons

April 23, 2021/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2021 / Muhammad Khudayyir, translated by Zeena Faulk

One day, before Jassim’s death, Warqa, the dearest of his pigeons, landed above the cote and entered through the tower’s upper entrance, there in the Ashar district in southern Iraq. It was a bit after three in the afternoon when Jassim glimpsed the two wings beating slowly and descending. It was her, Warqa, returning home three years after she had set out on her journey [. . .]

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Cut to shreds

April 21, 2021/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2021 / Kathrin Schmidt, translated by Sue Vickerman

The night before the wedding she’d tried on her wife’s floral party dress, which was of course too tight and too short on her. That she did this—putting a dash of rouge on her cheeks, a black line on her eyelids—might have caused consternation, but her bride-to-be just found it (so she said) funny. [. . .]

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Photo credit: Elisabeth Mohn

Sung’s Shop

December 4, 2020/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2021 / Karin Kalisa, translated by Johanna McCalmont

Berlin was one of the first cities I ever visited in Germany, and since then, I’ve been fascinated by its East/West history and the legacy of that period. I was immediately captivated by Sungs Laden because it touches on a less-known aspect of East German history.[…]

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Four Short Stories From Soulfood Equatoriale

December 1, 2020/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2021 / Léonora Miano, translated by Margaret Morrison

The sap of the plantains stains your clothes, hard to get them clean afterwards. During the preparations, the rain continues to fall. You open the kitchen window. The smell of wet earth mingles with that of the fritters or the plantains cut into thin slices before being plunged in hot oil.[…]

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Karrick_Russell

Panama, whether in the Pacific or the Atlantic, and other poems

June 12, 2020/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2020 / Javier Alvarado and Lucía Estrada, translated by Russell Karrick

Panama, on this street and in this time we’re missing, Before my days and nights (And from this poem) oscillating like water between lilies, With its fortified walls and buildings[…]

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Kerler_credit_Milberger, MichaelMichael Milberger

Excerpts from Singing Through Clenched Teeth

June 8, 2020/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2020 / Yoysef Kerler, translated by Maia Evrona

Like frightened birds after a hunter’s shot—My dreams scatter in flight when I open up my eyes[…]

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The Alabaster Cup

December 1, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2020 / Silvia Guerra, translated by Jesse Lee Kercheval and Jeannine M. Pitas

A crack is stained with the fog that begins on the plain.
The green of the curved jade grants transparency but also denies it:
leaves of thick dye, aroma that descends
clamoring at this somewhat empty start, condemned
from dye to aroma, peach that coats […]

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Buwaya (Crocodile)

November 26, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2020 / Enrique S. Villasis, translated by Scott Lee Chua
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Remembering Those Whose Names Are Forgotten

November 25, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Ji Yun, translated by Yi Izzy Yu and John Yu Branscum

The nun, Sister Hui, was very mysterious.
No one knew her family, or if she had one. No one knew whether she’d been raised rich or poor, educated or uneducated, in a village or in the capital city […]

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Ancient Musical Legend

May 29, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Grazia Deledda, translated by Matilda Colarossi
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The Sun’s Taste

May 27, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Rannvá Holm Mortensen, translated by Matthew Landrum
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Ekeko

May 21, 2019/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2019 / by Patricia Ndombe
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Wulf & Eadwacer

November 24, 2018/in Gabo, Gabo / by Anonymous, translated by M.L. Martin

                                                                                                              […]

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Excerpts from Poems from My Diary

November 18, 2018/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Abraham Sutzkever, translated by Maia Evrona

The Clay of Time has Grown Soft The clay of time has grown soft. The kneading of sunset after sunset has made it rise. A tiny grain of sand has suddenly split open in a dream to dispel a mystery, and only the owl weeps from a silver lock of tangled hair. The dead have […]

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Friday Lunch Blog

Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

Meeting My Child Self at the Trauma Play

May 9, 2025/in Blog / Gale Naylor
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Products of Our Environment

March 14, 2025/in Blog / Mitko Grigorov
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Mother-to-Mother: An Open Letter about White Privilege and Fragility

November 22, 2024/in Blog / Dr. Valerie Nyberg
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The dreams in which I’m (not) dying

April 25, 2025/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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On The Map

March 28, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Ariadne Will
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Disappear Where? A Meditation on the Lost and Getting Lost

November 1, 2024/in Midnight Snack / Reid Delehanty
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

we don’t spend our lives in the belly of the fish

May 16, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / translated from French by Gabriella Bedetti and Don Boes
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Fourberie

May 2, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Terese Coe
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Vernacular

April 18, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Mary Morris
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School Lunch

An occasional Wednesday series dishing up today’s best youth writers.

Today’s slice:

I’ve Stayed in the Front Yard

May 12, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Brendan Nurczyk
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A Communal Announcement

April 28, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Isabella Dail
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Seventeen

April 14, 2021/in School Lunch, School Lunch 2021 / Abigail E. Calimaran
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Word From the Editor

The managers of Lunch Ticket all agreed that issue 26 needed to have a theme, and that theme had a responsibility to call for work relating to what we are seeing in society. We wanted a theme that resonated with Antioch University MFA’s mission of advancing “racial, social, economic, disability, gender, and environmental justice,” and we felt it was time to take a stand…

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