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Answer Yes Or No by Khairi Hamdan
translated from the Bulgarian by Katerina Stoykova

September 22, 2022 Contributed By: Katerina Stoykova, Kelsey Nichols, Khairi Hamdan

"Summer" by Kelsey Nichols

Answer the call of the flute—
the lost impulse of the absent poets,
the incomplete painting, the unrained cloud,
the prophecy of an upcoming confession—

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: September 22, 2022

From Decarceration by Charline Lambert
Translated from the French by John Taylor

September 19, 2022 Contributed By: Charline Lambert, Guliz Mutlu, John Taylor

"Servant of Wile-Weaving" by Güliz Mutlu

Before grasping, taking
the pulse,
consider the litigation

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: September 19, 2022

The Owner of the Sea by Richard Price
reviewed by Jacqueline Schaalje

September 8, 2022 Contributed By: Jacqueline Schaalje, Richard Price

Owner of the Sea by Richard Price

The Owner of the Sea by British poet Richard Price, published by Carcanet, is a poetic retelling of three Inuit stories. It’s not a translation of those stories. They are based on folk stories told by elders and some other sources such as tales by the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen. Price describes them as “poetry based on prose translations of live storytelling.” If you thought Inuit busy themselves with fishing and chewing seal skin all day long, let these poem refresh your perspective!

Filed Under: Featured Reviews, Reviews, Translation Posted On: September 8, 2022

Montale and Martins
Translated by Richard Price

September 5, 2022 Contributed By: Eugenio Montale, Mark Rosalbo, Miguel Martins, Richard Price

Texture I by Mark Rosalbo

Haul your paper ships up the scorched shore
and then sleep, little-boy captain –

may you never hear the evil spirits
sailing now in flocks.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: September 5, 2022

Extract from X by Valentina Mira
translated from the Italian by Sean McDonagh

September 1, 2022 Contributed By: Dianne Corbeau, Sean McDonagh, Valentina Mira

"Introspection" by Dianne Corbeau

When it’s my turn to sleep, I dream of a wolf. It follows me around the rooms of the house. I have no idea what it wants with me, nor who is hiding beneath that fur. I wake up with my heart beating in its ribcage; it’s weird, it seems almost like it intends to take flight as if it were a hummingbird. And unfortunately, it’s a heart instead.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: September 1, 2022

Three Ai Poems
by Chandra Livia Candiani
Translated from the Italian by Elisabetta Taboga and Roy Duffield

August 25, 2022 Contributed By: Chandra Livia Candiani, Elisabetta Taboga, Heather Hua, Roy Duffield

"Agoraphobia p 14" by Heather Hua

Look mum it’s Ai
the number that escaped
the last of your sums, the figure
that doesn’t add up.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: August 25, 2022

Standing at the Empty Mouth
by Abboud Aljabiri,
translated from the Arabic by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp

August 18, 2022 Contributed By: Abboud Aljabiri, Guliz Mutlu, Jeffrey Clapp, Muntather Alsawad

Virginity by Guliz Mutlu

He was as calm as his family wanted,
managing a laugh each day of his life
and washing the traces away
with soap and water

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: August 18, 2022

Mr. Z by Grzegorz Wróblewski
Translated from the Polish by Peter Burzyński

July 21, 2022 Contributed By: Laurie Marshall, Peter Burzyński

Indoor Pets 3 by Laurie Marshall

Mr. Z opened the door to a preacher of the One Truth: the man in a hat looked around the room.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Fiction, Translation Posted On: July 21, 2022

Six Poems by Anna Matysiak
from Inbred Machines: (The Difference and the Repetition), translated from the Polish by Peter Burzyński

June 23, 2022 Contributed By: Anna Matysiak, Elizabeth Johnson, Peter Burzyński

Exit County by Elizabeth Johnson

the queen wasp / opens her first pair of arms. / she convulses in the right chamber like / how nails sanctify a board.

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: June 23, 2022

We Will Survive
by Rolla Barraq, translated from the Arabic by Muntather Alsawad and Jeffrey Clapp

June 2, 2022 Contributed By: Elizabeth Johnson, Jeffrey Clapp, Muntather Alsawad, Rolla Barraq

We Will Survive Johnson Barraq

Death was passing through the pores of waiting / like fresh messages from the sky

Filed Under: Featured Translation, Poetry, Translation Posted On: June 2, 2022

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