Nonfiction by Eleanor Goodman

Unfamiliar Riverbank: Contemporary Chinese Religious Poetry

The Tang Dynasty poets translated by the Beat Generation poets are often associated with the totality of "Chinese poetry."

Poetry by Tahir Hamut

A Night Sama

Their wailing won’t let me sleep, won’t let me sleep . . .

Translated from Uyghur by Darren Byler and Dilmurat Mutellip

Poetry by Tahir Hamut

Phone Call

On a mattress/ amidst an armful of hair/ a beautiful woman tosses and turns

Translated from Uyghur by Joshua L. Freeman

Interviews by Ian Boyden

The Presence of the Dalai Lama’s Absence: A Conversation with Tibetan Poet Tsering Woeser

At a time when Tibet is largely ignored by the international community, Woeser vividly conveys what it is like to experience the destruction of her culture.

Poetry by Tsering Woeser

Absent, Or Not Absent

right in the center, sat the completely empty dharma throne, richly decorated, the heart’s dream waiting like a balloon floating through desire

Translated from Chinese by Ian Boyden

Poetry by Xi Wa

Perhaps: Love Poems

I dare not use mortal eyes to contemplate you

Translated from Chinese by Chloe Garcia Roberts

Poetry by Li Hao

I Want to Walk Toward the Altar of the Lord

my body,/ like a spoon, here on this earth, sweetly scoops out / my brain.

Translated from Chinese by Eleanor Goodman

Poetry by Li Hao

Angels

I see your unfamiliar riverbank/ and walk toward you.

Translated from Chinese by Eleanor Goodman