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Rebel Brown Headshot

The Onkweshónwe are Excellent Marksmen

November 4, 2024/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2025 / Rebel Brown and Kawenniostha Nicole Martin

but here is how we name the birds, says Kawenniostha
in Kanienkeha: by the sounds, by their voices
how they talk about the weather
yoro, yoro on an overcast day

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Lorea Canales

Sunset

October 29, 2024/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2025 / by Lorea Canales, translated by Lia Galvan

From my childhood, I remember the slides from Park Missouri, the green aluminum rocket that smelled like piss, rides where I would go round and round, gripping the iron bars, like a Papantla Flyer, but upside down. If you weren’t careful, the chains would hit you.
I remember stopping on the highway and going to a restaurant in Villa de Santiago

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Ana Istarú headshot

Two short poems from VERBO MADRE

September 7, 2024/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2025 / Ana Istarú, translated by Amanda Moore

You spill,
end of delight,
a translucent initial in my pelvis,

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Saoirse

Ghazal

August 4, 2024/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2025 / Saoirse

Go back, go home, go away with your language
In my land, only order takeaway with your language
ਤੂੰ ਇਤਨਾ ਛੱਪਰ ਛੱਪਰ ਦੱਸੇ ਤੋ ਸਮਝ ਕਿੱਥੋ ਆਵੇ

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Andreea Stoica

Mir

July 4, 2024/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2025 / Andreea Stoica, translated by Amanda L. Andrei and Codin Andrei

We’re traveling to the little farm our grandparents built in the middle of the vineyards. With feet used to the dried up rhythm of our tired city, Minu and Rumbi will step, for the first time, into the simple world of vegetables, fruits, and farm animals.

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Photo of Fernando Silva

Evangelina’s Vacation

May 29, 2024/in Summer-Fall 2024, Translation, Translation / Fernando Silva, translated by Peggy Morrison

The big yellow bus rumbled along, flattening the grasses along the edge of the road. The fence posts for the ranches the bus was passing stood in line, keeping the fence wires in place, though here and there a sprouting post had already become a tree again. Rain had moistened the land and there were puddles in the road;

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Unrelenting Grief

May 21, 2024/in Summer-Fall 2024, Translation, Translation / Appadurai Muttulingam, translated by Thila Varghese

Joe, a friend of mine, was unwell. Even after consulting many doctors for over three months and taking numerous medications, there was no relief. They had him undergo many medical tests such as x-rays and scans, and they also examined the blood work, but no one could figure out the illness he was ailing from.

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Artur Dron B&W headshot

The Mother

June 4, 2023/in Summer-Fall 2023, Translation, Translation / Artur Dron, translated by Hanna Leliv

You shall now become a man of rock.
A solid and sturdy man,
slightly chipped.

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Ma Yan

Tonight, We Drive Out of Town

June 1, 2023/in Summer-Fall 2023, Translation, Translation / Ma Yan, translated by Winnie Zeng

Tonight, we drive out of town. Dear,
your face is unfamiliar, so are your fingers,
your thighs, your calves. This body
evokes my curiosity. But in living bodies,
I’m no longer interested, they are more or less the same.

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Saeb Tabrizi, public domain image

Two Poems by Saeb Tabrizi

June 5, 2022/in Summer-Fall 2022, Translation, Translation / translated by Rebecca Ruth Gould and Kayvan Tahmasebian

I hear God’s promise of forgiveness in the babbling wine.

From the rubab, I hear the clang of Paradise’s gate.

This is the difference when we hear:

you hear the door closing, I hear it opening.

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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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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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Girl Friends

December 5, 2020/in Gabo, Translation, Winter-Spring 2021 / Kaori Ekuni, translated by Sharni Wilson
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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 11, 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 10, 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 9, 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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Lampadophoria

December 3, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by José Castillo Baeza, translated by Allison A. deFreese
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The Support Verses, Earliest Sayings of the Buddha/ The Beatitudes

December 2, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Siddhārtha Gautama, translated by Christopher Carter Sanderson
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It is always raining in our memory/ Untitled/ The Island Drank Up All the Air/ The Sunset

November 29, 2019/in Translation, Translation, Winter-Spring 2020 / by Sergio Mansilla Torres, translated by Cynthia Steele
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Marrow/ Boat People/ Balsero/ Ritual/ Exequias

November 28, 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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The Color of Envy

November 27, 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 30, 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 28, 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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Friday Lunch! A serving of contemporary essays published the second Friday of every month.

Today’s course:

Behind the Eight Ball: How to Become Homeless in the Richest Country in the World

June 13, 2025/in Blog / Valerie Nyberg
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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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Midnight Snack

Take a bite out of these late night obsessions.

Tonight’s bites:

Dig Into Genre

May 23, 2025/in Midnight Snack / Lauren Howard
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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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Amuse-Bouche

Little bites every third Friday to whet your appetite!

Today’s plate:

Tale of the resistant apple tree

June 6, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Tahar Bekri, translated by Patrick Williamson
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Talyshi Wall Graffiti and other poems

May 30, 2025/in Amuse-Bouche / Ghazal
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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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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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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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