topic: Poetry

Every morning on my walk to work, I lift my eyes at the top of a long, sloping hill, and check the flagpole. Since I got back to work this...

On the cover of The Poems of Kim Yideum, Kim Haengsook, and Kim Min Jeong —new writing by Korean women poets from Vagabond Press’s Asia...

Erzulie Dantor During the night we rode through town on scooters. Down the alleys, it’s like a carpenter’s yard after a bomb has exploded...

Remember the Name My name is a refugee From Haifa, Acre, and Jaffa, But I have no idea What these places are like. My grandparents told me...

Night Walk Beneath the cotton-candy pink in the plume of a tire fire, one man’s beard is peeling off. One looks like a clown, leans on a...

Chicken mnemonics The old man squats through unhung chimney Bellows out a copper cloud it chokes up the stench From the neighbor’s farm In...

Under Siege by Mahmoud Darwish Autoplay next video Here on the slopes of hills, facing the dusk and the cannon of time Close to the gardens...

Editor's note: Dareen Tatour's trial scheduled for September 6th could not proceed due to the lack of an Arabic translator for Dareen's...