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Trial Run

nothing is certain but and taxes
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Correspondences in the Air: On The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry
By Ilya Kaminsky
Poet and translator Ilya Kaminsky elucidates the dialogues between poets across languages and time in this dazzling essay, first published as the introduction to The Ecco Anthology of International Poetry.
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Nepal
By Marina Gudelj
In this short story by Croatian writer Marina Gudelj, a busy mother is blindsided by her sister’s decision.
Translated from Croatian by Ena Selimović
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In Your Room
By Wang Jiaxin
Poet Wang Jiaxin considers the self and its private and public reflections. The poem appears in The Silk Dragon II: Translations of Chinese Poetry, edited and translated by Arthur Sze and published by Copper Canyon Press.
Translated from Chinese by Arthur Sze
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Bird of Paradise by Jacques Callot in the Rosenwald Collection of the National Gallery of Art
Creating Creatures
By Binoy Majumdar
In these poems, written during a stay in a psychiatric hospital, Bengali poet Binoy Majumdar gives instructions for creating new birds, fruit, and trees.
Translated from Bengali by Arunava Sinha

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Purépecha Mother
By Gilberto Jerónimo Mateo
This poem from an indigenous Purépecha author celebrates the heroism of a seemingly ordinary woman.
Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris & Sylvia Sasson Shorris
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It’s a Chick, Not a Dog
By Jar al-Nabi al-Hilw
My mother knew he was walking after her. Almost certainly she knew. Do you want me to tell you why?
Translated from Arabic by Marilyn Booth
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Which experiences have a greater influence on us—our successes, or the times when we've been hurt?
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"Thank Goodness They're Not Here": Three Poems by Cristina Rivera Garza
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Thank Goodness They’re Not Here
By Cristina Rivera Garza
In this poem by Cristina Rivera Garza, absences and presences jostle for remembrance and liberation.
Translated from Spanish by Ilana Luna & Cheyla Samuelson
The Geology of the Place
By Cristina Rivera Garza
Translated from Spanish by Ilana Luna & Cheyla Samuelson
The Symptomatology of the Place
By Cristina Rivera Garza
Translated from Spanish by Ilana Luna & Cheyla Samuelson
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Against Silence: A Palestinian Writing Series
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Against Silence: Palestinian Writing in English
By Lena Khalaf Tuffaha
For as long as Palestinians have resisted their occupiers, a companion narrative questioning our very existence, a profoundly dehumanizing narrative rooted in the West’s still unexamined anti-Arab racism, has also thrived, writes Lena Khalaf Tuffaha.
Between Sky & Earth
By Olivia Elias
Translated from French by Jérémy Victor Robert
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Familiar and Unknown Worlds: Science Fiction and Fantasy from Quebec
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Specimen
By Joyce Baker
Ophélie smiles idly, everything spins, the air stops, space-time tears, clocks grind.
Translated from French by E. S. Taillon
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Chlorosis
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Joshua L. Freeman

Joshua L. Freeman is a historian of modern China and a translator of Uyghur literature.

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Krisztina Tóth

Krisztina Tóth (1967) is one of Hungary’s most highly acclaimed poets and writers. She has published…

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Salar Abdoh

Salar Abdoh’s most recent book is Tehran at Twilight. He lives in Tehran and in New York, where he teaches…

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Trần Dần

Born in Nam Dinh, Trần Dần was barely twenty years old when he joined the Viet Minh in 1946. Eight years…

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Kinga Tóth

Kinga Tóth (1983) is a sound-poet-illustrator as well as songwriter and frontwoman of the Tóth Kína…

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Joshua L. Freeman

Joshua L. Freeman is a historian of modern China and a translator of Uyghur literature.

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Krisztina Tóth

Krisztina Tóth (1967) is one of Hungary’s most highly acclaimed poets and writers. She has published…

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Salar Abdoh

Salar Abdoh’s most recent book is Tehran at Twilight. He lives in Tehran and in New York, where he teaches…

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Trần Dần

Born in Nam Dinh, Trần Dần was barely twenty years old when he joined the Viet Minh in 1946. Eight years…

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Kinga Tóth

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Unlocking the Next Stage: Liliana Colanzi’s
You Glow in the Dark
By Julia Kornberg
Book cover of Fady Joudah's [...]: Poems
“Palestine in Arabic is Always Alive”: Fady Joudah’s
[. . .]
By Joyelle McSweeney
Book cover of Fine Grabol's What Kingdom (tr. Martin Aitken)
Ward Poetics:
Fine Gråbøl’s
What Kingdom
By Sherilyn Hellberg
Book cover of Liliana Colzani's You Glow in the Dark, translated by Chris Andrews
Unlocking the Next Stage: Liliana Colanzi’s
You Glow in the Dark
By Julia Kornberg