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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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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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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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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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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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After Winter, Intrinsic Silence

June 1, 2018/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Arno Bohlmeijer

[bilingual poetry] The first cable-car ride brings him before tourists, far above the daily concerns, where a trail climbs and winds in the shades of ancient woods. A trunk and moss can be heard, but many a tree leaf is gasping, when the largest deer on earth stops at six yards, watching. From top to […]

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Selected Poems from Our Ghosts and How We Talk to Them

May 30, 2018/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Carl-Christian Elze, translated by Caroline Wilcox Reul

[translated poetry] I drank coffee with your devastated parents or something we called coffee: were you already different when we sat across from each other in my kitchen and you didn’t want to eat anything except a piece of chocolate, did you already have an eye on the reeds? I can’t tell .. was that […]

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A Glazier

May 26, 2018/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2018 / by Debora Vogel, translated by Anastasiya Lyubas

[translated poetry] He was the same as other people who know nothing about the white gray glass: about the flat drop of sameness in a frame of white-lacquered window like a gray block of longing lying in a day rectangle of colored dough of encounters.   He has installed the window panes in a gray […]

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Excerpt from The False Note

November 21, 2017/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Trisse Gejl, translated by Lindy Falk van Rooyen

[translated fiction] “The wolf tone is a musical paradox. An atonality we suffer in the name of harmony.” One of the trees has bloomed early. In the park in front of the conservatory. Dabs of pink along a dark core. What are they called? Cherry blossoms, you’d say. You’re all grown up now. Later I […]

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Selected Poems from Black and Blue Partition: ‘Mistry 2

November 20, 2017/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Monchoachi, translated by Patricia Hartland

[translated poetry] V Fresheur and life “Same current, waters always new” The voice runs over the waters ++++++++++speeches crossed from god to god +++++sorcerous heritage, seaswells burgeoning +++++with careful lightness ++++++++++same as +++++same as grass crown, thatch, lalang; water crystalline, upslope downslope harmony, +++++++++++++++that the spirits’ good humor won’t cloud. Begone-become, begone as foam +++++++++++++++leaving […]

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The Last Ones

November 19, 2017/in Gabo, Gabo, Winter-Spring 2018 / by Claudia Morales, translated by Allana Noyes

[translated fiction] The first thing he recognized were José Luis’s mannerisms. He remembered the way he’d sit on the bench and chew the little pink eraser on his pencil. Maybe if he tried hard enough he’d be able to remember every part of the school: the sticky hallways, the fossilized gum stuck under the long […]

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Sunday

May 18, 2017/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Agustín Cadena, translated by Patricia Dubrava

“Tell your father not to stay out there in the chill; it’ll make him sick.” Actually, it was warm on the patio. The sun already hung low in the sky, but it was still two hours until dark. And the fence around the house shielded don Antonio Nemiña from the winds loaded with dust and […]

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Quotidian Blues

May 14, 2017/in Gabo, Gabo, Summer-Fall 2017 / by Ganna Shevchenko, translated by Anne Gutt

Sister My sister is sitting on the bank of a ploughed field, catching the last grains like fish. The black earth is agitated, spattering poisonous salt throwing foam beneath the blackthorn bush. I go up to her, bent and old, sobbing, so she pities me, saying, “Look, I’m cold, I’ll die.” And she answers me, […]

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The Enduring Haunting of a Failed Driver’s Test(s)

September 15, 2023/in Blog / Meghan McGuire
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Glitch Wisdom

May 12, 2023/in Blog / KJ McCoy
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Lessons on Getting Paid: My First Year as a Freelance Writer

April 14, 2023/in Blog / EJ Saunders
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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

The Secret Histories of Everywhere

June 2, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Brian Lynn
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Into the Linguistic Rabbit Hole

May 5, 2023/in Midnight Snack / paparouna
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Dancing into Detachment

April 7, 2023/in Midnight Snack / Robert Kirwin
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Exercise

September 11, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Cecilia Savala
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LitDish: Ten Questions With Isabel Yap

September 1, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Interviewed by Gail Vannelli
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Pawing the Ground

July 23, 2023/in Amuse-Bouche / Laurie Granieri
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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

If you are an artist of any kind, chances are you are no stranger to The Unknown. In fact, it has probably been a motivating factor in creating your art. I know it has been for me. Wrestling with The Unknown is a fundamental part of the human experience, and the human experience is a fundamental part of art.

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