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Announcing the publication of our 25th Anniversary Issue!  Browse a complete table of contents here.  Available for purchase in print and pdf here.

FEATURED: Selected poems and broadsides from our new print issue, plus Dunya Mikhail and Katie Ford on how their poems began.

REVIEWS: Ken Walker reviews Cold Fire, Verónica Zondek’s English-language debut, translated by Katherine Silver.

POETRY: New poems from some our Cavafy Prize finalists: Jehanne Dubrow, Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, Seif-Eldeine, Rasaq Malik, and Patrick Holloway. 

… and don’t forget to submit to the 2022 C.P. Cavafy Prize—now open!

 

from our 25th Anniversary Issue 

• Katie Ford On “Tell Us” 
  “For what in life can we prepare, for what can we ready ourselves, and against what weathers…” | by Katie Ford, Poetry International 27/28
• Dunya Mikhail on “The War Works Hard”
  “In mind was the war I lived since my teenage time in Baghdad. However, it’s not about a specific war but about war itself. Every time, the war came with a different name…” | by Dunya Mikhail, Poetry International 27/28
• Plantains
  “Everything ends, except this love:/Our bunches hanging in the rainy breeze” | by Juan Carlos Goleano
• Floods
  “The poor live on low ground waiting for the river/ to rise one night and sweep them out to sea.” | by Pablo Neruda

Dispatches

• Ukrainian Feature: Words for War
  “For many of the poets, the war is not some distant event one hears about in the papers. It is part of their personal history”| poems from Ukraine, edited by Oksana Maksymchuk and Max Rosochinsky
• In Praise of Adam Zagajewski (1945-2021)
  “For years now, as my plane begins its descent toward the airport outside of Kraków, the city where I was born and raised but left years ago, I recite them quietly” | by Piotr Florczyk
• Yulya Tsimafeyeva’s Poetry of One-Legged Wonder
  “Between these poets of cultural affirmation and the poets of silence… comes a voice of a woman—and a woman in a patriarchal world is always somewhat of an immigrant” | by Valzhyna Mort

Interviews

• Of Things Never Told Before
  On myths and muses, radical artifice, genre switching, and the love of children’s poetry | Joseph Thomas talks to Neil Philip
• Other People’s Voices
  How sound can bridge the past and present and what books of poetry have in common with websites | Zach Bernstein and Paisley Rekdal talk about her digital project West: A Translation
• Poetry Unbound
  On the other 99% of poetry, how it actually exists in the world | Jessica Pressman talks to poet and scholar Mike Chasar
• Celebrating the Natural World
  The human, the nonhuman, a love of revising, and the sorrow necessary in celebrating the natural world | Tami Haaland talks to Aimee Nezhukumatathil

Reviews

• Life Endures Nourished by Itself
  Cold Fire by Verónica Zondek, translated by Katherine Silver | Reviewed by Ken Walker
• A Poet of Love, A Poet of Praise
  A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke edited by William Barillas | Reviewed by Alexander Long
• Broken Hearts and A Broken Earth
  The Book of Fools by Sam Taylor | Reviewed by Catherine Imbriglio

Poetry

• Cochlea
  “The murkiness, the smog, the thickened haze/ in me are hard to love.” | by Jehanne Dubrow, 2021 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• The Usual Suspects or a Chronological List of the Ways Men Have Referred to my Breasts:
  “They’re my favorite part of you, Mama,/ my son says, pressing into them hard” | by Julia Kolchinsky Dasbach, 2021 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• Exit
  “On every door in this village/ there are last notes left by families/ crossing the sea to another land.” | by Rasaq Malik, 2021 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• The Starlight in Syria
  “The wounded know stars are a furnace/ for mankind’s sins. The wounded curl themselves/ into a ball of starlight” | by Seif-Eldeine, 2021 C.P. Cavafy Finalist
• I sat next to Adele on a plane and she bought me a house
  “I’d gotten a fluky upgrade, moved from 38C to 4B./ She— a stranger still, was already sitting, a silver/ studded handbag at her feet,” | by Patrick Holloway, 2021 C.P. Cavafy Finalist

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