Poetry

Two Hungarian Poems about Loneliness translated by Joe Varadi

Two Hungarian Poemsβ€” Translated by Joe VΓ‘radi

Translated from the Hungarian by Joe VΓ‘radi   The Storm ApproachesΒ  By Attila JΓ³zsef   Artwork by CsontvΓ‘ry Kosztka Tivadar  The storm approaches, ebon-crested,irate judges, black-cloaked and vested,lightning bolts sever skies…...
Six Bengali Poems by Subrata Sarkar

In The Land Of The Giantess & Other Poemsβ€” Subrata Sarkar

Translated from the Bengali by Arnab RoyΒ    In The Land Of The Giantess Blood oozes all night, sweet dreams of sucking bonesbuzzes over our faces like flies,What’s more nutritious than human fleshin this universe?Β  Tomorrow we…...
Six Turkish poems by Behçet Necatigil

Bone & Other Poems— Behçet Necatigil

Translated from the Turkish by GΓΆkΓ§enur Γ‡. and Neil Patrick Doherty Β  Translations dedicated to the memory of PΔ“teris CedriΕ†Ε‘ Β  BoneΒ  And into the ceilings seeps a smell of tallowFrom the candles so quietly quenchedAnd people…...
Three Poems about grief and loneliness by Constantin Abaluta

Only Loneliness & Other Poems— Constantin Abăluță

Translated from the Romanian by Victor Pambuccian   Only LonelinessΒ  Only loneliness knows what a word isonly the rain knows when you’ll leave for goodyou listen on the phone to how a friend’s cat is purringand you…...
Seven Greek poems by Spyros Aravanis

The Houses Of The Dead & Other Poemsβ€” Spyros Aravanis

Translated from the Greek by Yannis GoumasΒ    The Houses Of The Dead Houses belong to their deadas the bones of horses to their riders.Starting with the peeling of wallsto arrive eventually in their stalkβ€”never from…...
An English translation of a Malayalam Poem by Sujeesh

Tamedβ€” A Malayalam Poem by Sujeesh

Translated from the Malayalam by Nithya Mariam JohnΒ    After each resettlingthose which didn’t fit in, were discarded. Now, what remains with me after moving from place to place, are things that befit any house. This…...
Poems about love and loneliness by Katerina Agyioti

Twenty Micro Poems & Other Poemsβ€” Katerina Agyioti

Self-translated from the Greek by Katerina Agyioti   Twenty Micro Poems I am adopted. My parents don’t know it yet. I am waiting for the right moment to tell them. (I chose them when I was an…...
Four Spanish Poems by Fabian O Iriarte

Chairs Photo Series & Other Poemsβ€” FabiΓ‘n O. Iriarte

Translated from the Spanish by Donny SmithΒ  Β  Chairs Photo SeriesΒ  like snares that inexorable keep ustied to the passage of time seated on the sphinxlike worthless riddles we wonder what our nextconundrum will be…...
Four poems by Shankar Lahiri

Flowers Strewn On The Ground & Other Poemsβ€” Shankar Lahiri

Translated from the Bengali by Aritra SanyalΒ    HogΒ  A hog, fleshy and smooth. A womanΒ  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β  Β …...