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Chairil Anwar, Author Headshot

Invitation / Memories

November 30, 2021/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2022 / Chairil Anwar, translated by Harper Campbell and Christoffer Dharma

Ida
Pierced the light
The air thick as fog
The black mirror full of moss
Is shatter-scattered now

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Return / To the Beloved / Athens

April 22, 2021/in Summer-Fall 2021, Translation, Translation / Antonia Pozzi, translated by Amy Newman

There was a nearly suffocating smell: smell of old walls, it struck me like the melodies that resurrect in the heart the deepest memories. You know: on that sofa I wept so much when I knew you wouldn’t come back. And today, in the doorway, my soul of that time took hold of me; in an instant my entire past returned. . .

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Nine Excerpts from Padre Tierra: A Poem in 50 Parts

April 20, 2021/in Summer-Fall 2021, Translation, Translation / Mariano Zano, translated by Blas Falconer

I sleep and everything sleeps. The bread dough sleeps in the bowl covered with a damp cloth. The jars are sleeping in the cupboard, each a womb of enameled glass. Quinces sleep, household suns, on embroidered bridal linens in the hope chest. Tomorrow you’ll be fine. Between dreams, I hear you. Tomorrow, you’ll run, as if this were nothing. It’s just that you’re growing. . .

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Photo Credit: Eri Takahashi

Girl Friends

December 7, 2020/in Gabo, Translation, Winter-Spring 2021 / Kaori Ekuni, translated by Sharni Wilson
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Ivan BaecherPhoto Credit: Móni Szűcs

Klétka: The Story of Jenő Gold

December 7, 2020/in Translation, Translation / Iván Bächer, translated by Veronika Haacker-Lukacs

From the spring of 1986 onwards, Vera’s abdomen, stomach, or something thereabouts, hurt. It didn’t hurt all the time. It hurt sometimes. It didn’t even always hurt in the same way. At times, it hurt more; at other times, it hurt less. They thought: it happens. One’s stomach hurts sometimes. It will go away.

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Five Poems from One Hundred Prisons of Love

December 6, 2020/in Translation, Translation / Virginia Brindis de Salas, translated by April Yee

Because my heart
is honey and soft wax
flesh craving a fingerprint
or just a dent––

I dream, defer, despair,
and in love’s hundred prisons,
die and die again.

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Credit: Nancy Falk

BATALHA DA PRAÇA DA SÉ, 1934 / LETTER TO THE CENSOR, 1939

June 13, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Paula Abramo, translated by Dick Cluster

The guns sing a carmine joy incarnate—note how, here, two figures of speech live in peaceful coexistence to narrate an epic event.[…]

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Forgetting My Mother

June 12, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Barbara Bedin, translated by Rachele Salvini

Now she can’t do anything anymore, so, when I visit her, I tell her to prepare the salad, just to kill time. She peels away the bad leaves, and I tell her, “Throw them away and leave the good ones.” She starts, but then she forgets, so we eat the rotten salad and we mix it with curcuma and balsamic vinaigrette to cover the bad taste.[…]

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Amber Estes Thieneman

Untitled Selections From L’Adolescence

June 11, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Marie-Andrée Gill, translated by Kristen Renee Miller

And when the night draws its celebrations to a close, the hares undress all alone, sexes smeared from long storms. Perhaps we’ve forgotten that the body, yes the body, finds a desolate kind of beauty once exposed […]

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Credit: Arce Jebbel

The Doll’s House / Let’s go! To Paris not to live, but to die / No Need to Savor Youth

June 10, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Na Hye-Sok, translated by Tanya Ko Hong

Blame me not, but society, morals, laws, and customs Your mother as a pioneer was a martyr of destiny Someday you may come as ambassadors to Paris Find my grave, leave one flower for me[…]

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Credit Vladimir Levashov

Dead Fox

June 7, 2020/in Summer-Fall 2020, Translation, Translation / by Julia Lukshina, translated by Anne O. Fisher
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An Oddly Satisfying Existence/ Leading Light/ The Anser

December 4, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / Mahdi Ahmadian
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The Support Verses, Earliest Sayings of the Buddha/ The Beatitudes

December 4, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Siddhārtha Gautama, translated by Christopher Carter Sanderson
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Marrow/ Boat People/ Balsero/ Ritual/ Exequias

December 3, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Kelly Martínez-Grandal, translated by Melanie Márquez Adams

Havana reverberates, resists,
bursting through the cobblestones.
Light years,
I sense a galaxy of infant stars.
I don’t use its name and it doesn’t use mine […]

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It is always raining in our memory/ Untitled/ The Island Drank Up All the Air/ The Sunset

December 3, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Sergio Mansilla Torres, translated by Cynthia Steele
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Lampadophoria

December 2, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by José Castillo Baeza, translated by Allison A. deFreese
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The Color of Envy

December 2, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Kemal Varol, translated by Dayla Rogers
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Before Spring, XXXV., Advent, & Omega

May 31, 2019/in Summer-Fall 2019, Translation, Translation / by Tibor Babiczky, translated by Timea Balogh

[translated poetry] Before Spring A strange sound wakes you. Your heart? Your stomach? Just the pipes. Two-thirty in the morning. A pale lane of light pollution looms between the high rises on the horizon. Above it, a thin strip of sky. Like clumps of minerals in a newly discovered mining cavity, dim stars shine. The […]

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Black Magic

May 25, 2019/in Summer-Fall 2019, Translation, Translation / by Agustín Cadena, translated by Patricia Dubrava

[translated flash prose] Take this seed. Plant it in an olla that has only been used to make coffee. Water it lightly Tuesdays and Fridays around midnight. It will grow into a plant with black flowers. Cut them with a man’s knife and grind them up in a new lava stone mortar. You will be […]

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The Love Designer

May 24, 2019/in Summer-Fall 2019, Translation, Translation / by Ayurzana Gun-Aajav, translated by Narantsogt "Natso" Baatarkhuu

[translated fiction] Dime-a-dozen, fair-weather friends—the ones you met to do nothing but sit around, drink beer, and gab. The night we hung out was of the same kind. On one side of the booth sat men who wanted a one night stand. None of the ladies on the other side were seeking Mr. Right, either. […]

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The Toad

May 23, 2019/in Summer-Fall 2019, Translation, Translation / by Victor Hugo, translated by Mina Samuels

[translated poetry] What do we know? Who then understands the depths of things? The sunset glowed in the rose-hued clouds. It was the end of a day of storms, and the west Set the showers aflame in a ferocious blaze. Near a ditch, at the edge of a rain puddle, A toad looked at the […]

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We Were the New Era

November 23, 2018/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Andreas Baum, translated by Catherine Venner

[translated fiction] Right at the beginning, at that very first meeting in the park, there were twelve of us, half of which I didn’t even know. There, upon that gentle slope behind the house, you could hear the fountains splashing and the trams squealing down Kastanienallee. It was the end of June and rather hot. […]

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Excuse Us & The Dead People of Mogadishu

November 22, 2018/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Marco Cinque, translated by Alessandra Bava

[translated poetry] Excuse Us Excuse us for fleeing the wars that you fed with your own arms Excuse us for getting poisoned with the toxic waste buried by your powerful industries Excuse us if you’ve bled out our land, depriving us of any possible resource Excuse our poverty daughter of your richness of your neo-colonialisms […]

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The Rapids

November 21, 2018/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Concha Espina, translated by Slava Faybysh

[translated fiction] “Martín!” “Ñoraa!” “You think the river’s gone up?” “Definitely, the snowmelt’s really letting loose down the sierra, bursting like you wouldn’t believe.” “Will the cows go into the woods?” “I couldn’t hold them back even if I tried.” “But be careful on the way back, son, the river’s treacherous.” “The river won’t get […]

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The Fourth Astral Plane & We Have Arrived

November 21, 2018/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Alex Galper, translated by Stella Padnos and Thomas Fucaloro

[translated poetry] The Fourth Astral Plane We bolted from empty stores, Army bullies, Chernobyl, Afghanistan, Nagorno-Karabakh and Happy drunkards euthanized in the snow. We were afraid that tomorrow another curtain would fall, And the pogrom-happy Czar would return, or the dictator, or the terrorists, So amidst the hot Brooklyn spring we came To the Hasidim […]

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Tights & Buttons

November 19, 2018/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2019 / by Bronka Nowicka, translated by Agnieszka Gabor da Silva

[translated poetry] “Tights” She likes the taste of her knee. In the summer, she’ll eat it straight from the skin. In the winter, she’ll do so until all the cotton hair has shed on her tongue. In her head stuck on the knee, the child puts together the things she knows. An ant rubbed between […]

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Given in Measurement

May 29, 2018/in Summer-Fall 2018, Translation, Translation / by Karla Reimert, translated by Patty Nash

[translated poetry] I Given in measurement. Play seasons. Beneath bushes of fog, face blades, get knotty, all the while be back, pelvis, exchange of oxygen and photosynthesis. Lust as shears. Slight air supply, then: Breathe, raise arms shoulder-high, a beelined shoot axis. Put up defense with leaves (thorns, bugs, spiderwebs), evaporation of the slightest. The […]

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De roses et d’épines: English, French, & Portuguese

May 29, 2018/in Summer-Fall 2018, Translation, Translation / by Landa wo

[self-translated poetry] Roses and spines The widow’s shaven head Welcomes the knights of the apocalypse Sunbeams Arrows of the day The husband’s soul Escapes from the body The widow’s shaven head Welcomes the knights of the apocalypse   Antidote He was handsome but ”la fille de Joie” [1] did not let herself go. Love is […]

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5 Poems by Feng Na

May 29, 2018/in Summer-Fall 2018, Translation, Translation / by Feng Na, translated by Henry Zhang

[translated poetry] Chinese Fable When I was small my father’s coworker ran off coming back with one of those briefcases full of money close, smutty talk filled our town about what he’d done to get it he smiled and disappeared again Next we heard he’d been sentenced to death for drug trafficking a family member […]

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LONELY POET, QUIET RESTAURANT/ ONLY YOU

May 29, 2018/in Summer-Fall 2018, Translation, Translation / by Syed Shamsul Haq, translated by Mohammad Shafiqul Islam

[translated poetry] LONELY POET, QUIET RESTAURANT Words in the head, restaurant nearby Clouds have amassed in the month of Asharh reminding of Distressed days—streets are bumpy all over. Who knows when they’ll be cleared of mud-heaps! In these hours he has to find a way out. Poetry and coffee are waiting for him. Suddenly rain starts, […]

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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published every Friday.

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Where/When

May 20, 2022/in Blog / Gillian Shure
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Diagnosed at Sixty – My ADHD Journey

April 22, 2022/in Blog / Kait Leonard
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Why Video Game Preservation Matters

April 15, 2022/in Blog / Nicholas Galvez
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Midnight Snack

A destination for all your late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

QVC-land

May 6, 2022/in Midnight Snack / D. E. Hardy
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Escape Artists at the End of the World

April 29, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Lisa Levy
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The House in the Middle

April 15, 2022/in Midnight Snack / Megan Vasquez
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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every Monday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Achromatopsia

May 23, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Robin Sinclair
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Which Half

May 18, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Claire Scott
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Antigone in NYC

May 2, 2022/in Amuse-Bouche, Poetry / Ann Pedone
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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

Here at Lunch Ticket, 2021 represents ten years of our literary journal. 2021 marks the start of a new decade, one I can only hope will stand as tall and iconic in the history of our publication as the jazz age in America. What we’ve put together this fall is what I call and will fondly remember as our “Roaring 20th Issue”.

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