Two Poems by Kirill Medvedev
On the day of my thirty-seventh birthday I ended up involved / in murdering the president. I was in charge of watching the windows of his palace / and… More
Poetry Is Special America
I do not know. I do not know. I do not know. I do not know. I do not know. I do not know. I do not know. I… More
Chistopol Notebook
Though Tarkovsky is one of Russia's greatest poets of the twentieth century—on the ranks with Mandelstam, Akhmatova, and Brodsky—he remains little-known in the West. Philip Metres's and Dimitri Psurtsev's… More
from Ideal Machine
dear son don’t flinch / when he comes for you // singing through my brain my face // lure you wait / shadows flat under the operating lights //… More
Nightmare Running on a Meadow of Absolute Light
One of the leading Mexican poets of the generation born in the 1960s and a powerful presence in all of Latin American poetry, Baranda is best known for her… More
Four Poems by Mark McMorris
What more is there to say about tambourines / that mimic the bells on a leather saddle, strapped / to a horse you rode across the Chinese tundra /… More
from In the Gun Cabinet
I / was / delicate / as a child / lived / one too / many lives, I / loved me as myself / I was my brother … More
Two Poems by John Yau
Shorthand that he is sacrificial pig / Soon to be dangled plunged flushed or frozen / Before slurping prognathous blob toting lurkers / Mildly curious prop destined for smithereen… More
Pixel Flesh
These poems are excerpted from Pixel Flesh, a haunting translation of prose poetry collection by Agustín Fernández Mallo, who has pioneered an important shift in contemporary Spanish writing and… More
The Conference of the Birds
Farid ud-Din Attar is one of the greatest Sufi mystic poets of Iran. Sholeh Wolpé's artful and exquisite modern translation brings one of the definitive masterpieces of Persian literature… More