Poetry
Poetry
Do You Know . . .
“does she belong to the wind or the wind to her, / and are the greedy wolves / waiting to tear her apart?”
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger April 16, 2026
Poetry
A stone with wings
“The letter, Sara, is only / a waiting that has learned to walk”
Ghassan Zaqtan April 16, 2026
Poetry
about the rich and only the rich
“the rich keep telling us this is the best possible world. they kill and we die, but this is all we get to hope for. some rich people put on dresses and what splendor.”
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera March 13, 2026
Poetry
Fish
“I took the bait some time ago”
Birhan Keskin October 31, 2025
Poetry
House of Words, Ibau, Where’s Your Story?
“Speed, which once killed us on the streets, becomes a chest sinking to the bottom of the sea. We walk together while making a night full of stories. But where can we go home? The keeper of words has been evicted.”
Afrizal Malna October 31, 2025
Poetry
Siblings
“We lived / in many // houses”
Andrea Cohen July 25, 2025
Poetry
Another Example of Repetition
“In a world where the news commits genocide, / one should not report news after Gaza.”
Fady Joudah June 17, 2025
Poetry
Les petites vieilles
“The other wishes she were in Beirut, / but the Beirut she thought she knew is not / there”
Marilyn Hacker June 17, 2025
Poetry
Closer
“A perfect day // Can be a backdrop so calm”
Farid Matuk June 13, 2025
Poetry
Translation
“he says I want to get the get out of here / By here he means your world / not his”
Hayan Charara May 23, 2025
Poetry
Chattahoochee
“She’s taken the law into // her own hands, the narrative’s / taken a turn.”
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon November 15, 2024
Poetry
A Building
“in the cloud of dust that crossed the window, / in the echoes of the bomb that leveled the house next door, / in the sirens of the ambulance that couldn’t reach / the wound.”
Ibrahim Nasrallah October 18, 2024
Poetry
PURE&LOVE
“because the/ heart can’t pump love / all day, it takes it away / for matters of living—”
Ahmad Almallah September 20, 2024
Poetry
Hero vs. Common Fate
“It is the hero’s instinct to move / in a different direction, away from the crowd—”
Harryette Mullen September 6, 2024
Poetry
Maqam for a Green Silence
“Al-Khidr’s only condition for the prophet to join him on his journey was Moses’ unconditional silence. Moses said he was up for it, and the saint said, ‘You won’t be able to bear it.’ ”
Fady Joudah March 1, 2024
Poetry
[…]
“They did not mean to kill the children. / They meant to.”
Fady Joudah November 10, 2023
Poetry
prologue for now - Gaza
“I’ve taken this inventory before for all the ‘human animals’ ”
Dionne Brand October 27, 2023
Poetry
Naturalized
“Here’s your math. Here’s your hot take. / That number isn’t a number. / That number is a first word, a nickname, a birthday song in June.”
Hala Alyan October 20, 2023
Poetry
By Such Honorifics, You Attempt to Summon the Old Country You Have Never Seen
“Chosen affliction / Spilt milk / Pool of amnesia / Extreme sport / Terminal psychodrama”
Momtaza Mehri September 22, 2023
Poetry
Two Poems
“Eager for big words the woman whispered / Do you still love me / Do you see the death squads of tradition”
Joyce Mansour July 28, 2023
Poetry
a SONNET
“Without you, imagine, otherwise the paltry sum of speech I’d be.”
Jos Charles June 16, 2023
Poetry
covering
“in the broadest conception / of black music, which is the / truest conception of black / music, black music can’t be / conceived.”
Fred Moten May 19, 2023
Poetry
Pointed Handwriting
“I yelled out, Pull that child out from the frozen puddle! My throat kept screaming and my heart was like a pitch-black forest. The graves inside the forest hit me.”
Kim Hyesoon April 21, 2023
Poetry
Adjacent
“My life was going on / in the next room. There // were board games and / Pinochle”
Andrea Cohen March 31, 2023
