THIS SPECIAL TWENTY-FIFTH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE contains a rich and exciting array of portfolios including new work from Kevin Prufer, and newly-translated work, presented in English as well as the original language, from Elena Salamanca, Louis-Philippe Dalembert, Mariano Zaro, poets of the Armenian diaspora, among others.
We have dug deep into our archives to bring you a diverse, surprising, and moving collection of work by poets and translators from across the globe. You will find, for example, essays by Chana Bloch, Khaled Mattawa, Sarah Maclay, and Cynthia Hogue. and poems by Kaveh Akbar, Ellen Bass, Eavan Boland, Jericho Brown, Kwame Dawes, Carolyn Forché, Seamus Heaney, Jane Hirshfield, Fady Joudah, Li Young Lee, Philip Levine, James Longenbach, Dunya Mikhail, Valzhyna Mort, Warsan Shire, Charles Simic, Ruth Stone, Anna Swir, Tomas Tranströmer, Jean Valentine, Derek Walcott, Adam Zagajewski , Felicia Zamora and many, many more.
August 2022
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What you’ll find in this issue:
Kevin Prufer Portfolio
The Cities, the Armies
A History of My Schooling
Ants
Unlocatable Sadness
Increasingly Improbable
Poetry International Award Winners
FELICIA ZAMORA
Moratorium
HEATHER DERR-SMITH
The Boy
Aachen
Final Advent
C.W. EMERSON
The Gardener
PATRICK JAMES ERRINGTON
The Opposite of Poetry
Fieldwork in Secret
The Calling
LAURA BUDOFSKY WISNIEWSKI
The Speech Pathologist Tells My Lips
How Mushrooms Will Save the World
LÝ ĐỢI
Thinking While Without Identity,
a chapbook translated from Vietnamese by KELLY MORSE and the author.
The Beggar of Hanoi
Read Instructions Carefully First Before Becoming a Poet
Thinking While Without Identity
Distribution point/location for Orê, medicine for acute diarrhea
MARIE BALÉO
Awakening
Labyrinth
Slumber
Khamsin
At home, three effigies,
America, America
Barbarians
Peregrines
Firebugs
When you remember your exile in reverse, it always ends like this
MARK SVENVOLD
Unredacted: A Canticle for the End of the First Republic
JULIA THACKER
Curriculum Vitae
Paperwork
Dear Earth
Plum Jam
Dead Letter Office
For An Abandoned Library in Detroit
A Guide for Caregivers
Roma Amor
Portfolios: Translations & Originals
Love is a Bridge of Grammar: New Poems from
ELENA SALAMANCA’S Pensamiento Salvaje
(Viola Tricolor)
The Bottle in My Purse/La botella en la cartera
Edward Hopper Poem/Poema de Edward Hopper
The Two of Us Young, Lost/Jóvenes las dos, perdidas
I’ve Shared Hammocks with the Wrong Men/Compartí hamacas con hombres equivocados
An Invented Bird/Pájaro inventado
The Distance Between Hearts: Two Poems
by LOUIS-PHILIPPE DALEMBERT,
translated by Nancy Naomi Carlson
don’t be afraid/n’aie pas peur
long live life/vive la vie
Contemporary Poets of the Armenian Diaspora,
edited by ARTHUR KAYZAKIAN & LOLA KOUNDAKJIAN
VAHÉ GODEL, The Law of Numbers/La Loi Des Nombres
SONA VAN, Before the Magi Had Even Reached Bethlehem/ԵՐԲ ՄՈԳԵՐԸ ԴԵՌ ՉԷԻՆ ՀԱՍԵԼ ԲԵԹՂԵՀԵՄ
ANA ARZOUMANIAN, No Lyricism/Nada de Lirismo
ARAM SAROYAN, Saroyan & Minasian
GREGORY DJANIKIAN, Even for the Briefest Moment
ARMEN DAVOUDIAN, Exodus
NORA BAROUDJIAN, On Stage/ԲԵՄԻ ՎՐԱՅ
PETER BALAKIAN, What’s Up
NORA NADJARIAN, Carousel
Flying Night Train:
Selected Poems by JÓHANN HJÁLMARSSON,
translated from the Icelandic by CHRISTOPHER BURAWA
The Ocean/Hafið
New Apollo/Appollon nýi
Seashore/Strönd
April Morning on Öldugata/Aprílmorgunn við Öldugötu
Advent/Aðventa
Heartbeat as Shadow/Jódynur hjartans
A selection of poems from JORGE GALÁN’S Ruido,
translated from the Spanish by ALEXANDRA LYTTON REGALADO
Memory/Memoria
The Instant/El Instante
The Request/El Pedido
The Head/La Cabeza
Snowfall of January 1932/La Nevada de Enero de 1932
A selection from Padre Tierra:
A Poem in 50 Segments by MARIANO ZARO,
translated from the Spanish by BLAS FALCONER
25 Years of Poems from Poetry International
(Click bolded titles to view broadside images)
LINDA PASTAN
Woman Holding a Balance
Vermeer, 1664
RON KOERTGE
A Man from Mars
E. ETHELBERT MILLER
Oh Nigeria!
FRANCES PAYNE ADLER
Sam, Returns
STUART DYBEK
Windy City
FRED MURATORI
Eclipse 4
STEPHEN DUNN
Details
KIM ADDONIZIO
Fine
KATARZYNA BORUN-JAGODZINSKA
Mimi’s Aria
MARIN SORESÇU
Revelations
EAMON GRENNAN
One Saturday
MIGUEL ÁNGEL BUSTOS
The Patios of the Tiger
DUNYA MIKHAIL
The War Works Hard
LÝ LAN
Sleep-Walker
PHILIP LEVINE
Por Encima de los Angelos
ANTONIO JOSÉ PONTE
In the Former Red Light District
BARBARA CROOKER
The Hour of Peonies
LISA OLSTEIN
Long Distance Swimming
SEAMUS HEANEY
Tankas for Toraiwa
RUTH STONE
Untitled
TABAN LO LIYONG
Sarah Baartman and Museum Secrets
MIMI KHALVATI
The Meanest Flower
EDWARD BAUGH
Home Truths
STEPHANIE BOLSTER
Missing
WILLIAM ARCHILA
1978
GU CHENG
After the Air Raid
JUAN CARLOS GALEANO
Plantains
GZAR HANTOOSH
Destinies
ABDUL-RAZZAQ AL-RUBAI
The Grandchildren of Sinbad
HASHIM SHAFIQ
The Mountain
GEORGE MOORE
The Hermits of Dingle
GABRIELLA LETO
Happiness
DAG T. STRAUMVÅG
Cartoon Trick
ALEX GALPER
My Self Defense
SOPHIA DE MELLO BREYNER ANDRESEN
Antinoos
GERARDO DENIZ
Pavane for a Slimy Viper
PETER CONNERS
Rejoice
ANDREW SOFER
Ein Kerem
LI YOUNG LEE
Immigrant Blues
CARLOS MARZAL
Rat Heaven
DANIEL SIMKO
FAR
ISRAEL EMIOT
A Prayer in Nineteen Forty-Three
MAHMOUD DARWISH
She Didn’t Come
JEAN VALENTINE
Earth and the Librarian
GODZILLA IN MEXICO
Roberto Bolaño
DISAPPEARED
Eugenia Toledo
PAWEL MARCINKIEWICZ
Flacon
REGINA DERIEVA
[Do not pick up]
RIVKA MIRIAM
Everything that was Flesh of your Flesh, says Jonathan
ALICIA OSTRIKER
The Husband
WERNER ASPENSTRÖM
You and I and the World
ANNA SWIR (ŚWIRSZCZYŃSKA)
A Conversation Through the Door
PAUL CELAN
Memory of France
LEONARDO SINISGALLI
To My Father
MALENA MÖRLING
Visiting
MARCELO ATANASSI
Deer
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
The Albatross
ELLEN BASS
The Lesser Gods
LUMMI (SALISH)
A Masked Event for Comedian & Audience
RAINER MARIA RILKE
Autumn Day
PABLO NERUDA
Floods
JANE HIRSHFIELD
I Ran Out Naked in the Sun
RADU VANCY
Kapital
AMY GERSTLER
Sexual Monotony
ATTILA JÓZSEF,
The Seventh
FOROUGH FARROKHZAD,
The Bird Was Just a Bird
DARIO JARAMILLO AGUDELO,
Milacos
LI HO
New Bamboo Shoots in My Northern Garden (4)
MONA HØVRING
A Woman Ascends the Stairs
IRINA MASHINSKI,
The End of the World
CÉSAR VALLEJO
Masses
TOMAS TRANSTRÖMER
Tracks
CHRISTOPHER WHYTE
The Chinese Beetle
ANNA AKHMATOVA
from “Requiem”
WARSAN SHIRE
Your Mother’s First Kiss
KATIE FORD
Tell Us
JERICHO BROWN
Hustle
KAY RYAN
Fatal Flaw
ELI ELIAHU
Burial
NIKOLA MADZIROV
We Have No Sleep
ELEANOR WILNER
Magnificat
OSIP MANDELSTAM
And I Was Alive
VALZHYNA MORT
Factory of Tears
EDWARD HIRSCH
God’s Insomniacs
ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI
Kings
DEREK WALCOTT
No Opera
CHARLES SIMIC
The Big War
EAVAN BOLAND
Night Feed
CAROLYN FORCHÉ
The Boatman
YULYA TSIMAFEYEVA
1986
LINDA GREGERSON
For the Taking
CARLY JOY MILLER
Why You Tried to Drown
TESS TAYLOR
Field Report: June
ZHANG QINGHUA
Breeze Blows By
DAVID TOMAS MARTINEZ
And Four
OSTAP SLYVYNSKY
1918
KAVEH AKBAR
I Won’t Lie This Plague of Gratitude
AMIT MAJMUDAR
The Weaver’s Song
LUISA MURADYAN
Raptor
JAMES LONGENBACH
The Crocodile
MAGGIE SMITH
Half Staff
ATSURO RILEY
Shed
WAYNE MILLER
Meeting the Board
CECILIA WOLOCH
How We Got into This
TONY HOAGLAND
Why I Like the Hospital
JAN WAGNER
bedsheets
KWAME DAWES
Les Negres De Paris
CHIAMAKA ENYI-AMADI
Small Magic
LEANNE O’SULLIVAN
Elegy for the Arctic
Prose Cities: 25 Years of Prose Poems from
Poetry International
edited and with an introduction by Katie Farris
Open Doors to the City
FRANCIS PONGE, The Pleasure of the Door, Kings do not touch doors.
KATHLEEN ROONEY, La Réponse Inattendue
DANIIL KHARMS, The Beginning of a Beautiful Day (Symphony)
DARÍO JARAMILLO AGUDELO, Pelicharos, Lacadonians
The City Where God Goes Around Pouring Salt into Human Beings
FRANCIS PONGE, [It could be just this . . . ] from the Book of Minutes
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, Anywhere Out of the World
INGER CHRISTENSEN, Text 7
OLIVERIO GIRONDO, Street Note
KATHLEEN ROONEY, Le Banquet, La Colère Des Dieux
The City of Flying Audiences
CASPAR OROZCO, Film Viewed On Coney Island
BRANDON SOM, Master of the Flying Guillotine
NIN ANDREWS, On the island where I grew up,
DANIIL KHARMS, Symphony No. 2
SABRINA ORAH MARK, Two Jokes Walk into a Bar
LUMMI (SALISH), A Masked Event for Comedian & Audience
The Chosen City of Someone Who Hungers and Someone in Need
KATHRYN NUERNBERGER, Glas Gaibhleann
KRISTINA MARIE DARLING, from The Ghosts of Birds
JEFF FRIEDMAN, What Happened to the Country
MONICA SOK, Self-Portrait as War Museum Captions
RAÚL ZURITA CANESSA, from The Sea
ALES STEGER, Smuggling and the Underground
NAJWAN DARWISH, Fabrications
NORA IUGA, Sibiu, My City-in-a-Retort. Sibiu, My Chosen City
Walk to the City of Three Remembrances
VALZHYNA MORT, Aunt Anna
CAROLYN FORCHÉ, A Stone for Svetko
A remembrance of the poet Svetozar Daniel Simko, 1959-2004
GOLDBERRY LONG, Litany for My Mother’s Body
Write to Me from This City with Your Eyes Closed
HENRI MICHAUX, I am Writing to you from a Far-Off Country
PIERRE REVERDY, The Book (“Le livre”)
MEAGAN MARSHALL, Walt Whitman left the supermarket and walked to my house
SIGURDUR PÁLSSON, A Few Practical Exercises in Event Poetry
ADAM VEAL, If you have reason to believe that you may be a fictional character.
STELLA VINITCHI RADULESCU, from Journal with Closed Eyes
HUGH BEHM-STEINBERG, The Sea, At the reading everyone falls asleep.
ELLEN HINSEY, Annals: A Natural History of Compassion
The City of Faith I Cling To
MONA HØVRING, A Woman Ascends the Stairs
NIN ANDREWS, Angels
BK FISCHER, (Beatitudes)
CECILIA WOLOCH, In the Name of Whatever Country This is, On Red Fibers
AMY GERSTLER, Saints
MAHMOUD DARWISH, A Longing for Forgetfulness
Trying to Stop Time: 25 Years of Prose from Poetry International
edited and with an introduction by Jenny Minniti-Shippey
CHANA BLOCH
The Assignment
KHALED MATTAWA
Translation & Identity
CYNTHIA HOGUE
The Tao of Disease
AFAA M. WEAVER
This is so Esso
HONORÉE FANONNE JEFFERS
Kwame Dawes’ Requiem—Or, A Defense of Narrative in Black Poetry
MARGO BERDESHEVSKY
The Quality of Mercy
SARAH MACLAY
Of Intimacy & Interiority