Poetry

Five Ogoni poems by Bura-Bari Nwilo

Ogoni Oil & Other Poemsβ€” Bura-Bari Nwilo

Self-translated from the Ogoni by Bura-Bari Nwilo Ogoni OilΒ  Ogoni Oil has a name.Its name is blood.The blood is fiercely hot.The blood flows like a river,the blood of infants and adults,of the rich and…...
Three French poems by Valerio Grutt

Three Poems by Valerio Grutt

It is an important occasion for all of us atΒ The AntonymΒ today. It is theΒ International Translation Day! To mark this occasion, we have been celebrating Translation Month throughout the month of September. As a part of that,…...
A poem of VahΓ© Godel on International Translation Day

Of a Clandenstine Penβ€” VahΓ© Godel

It is an important occasion for all of us atΒ The Antonym today. It is the International Translation Day! To mark this occasion, we have been celebrating Translation Month throughout the month of September. As…...
English Translation of three poems by Jibanananda Das

English Translations of Three Poems by Jibanananda Das

It is an important occasion for all of us atΒ The Antonym today. It is the International Translation Day! To mark this occasion, we have been celebrating Translation Month throughout the month of September. As a part…...
Two Hindi poems by Kedarnath Singh

Two Hindi Poems by Kedarnath Singh

Translated from the Hindi by Sharmista De People Of My LanguageΒ  People of my languageAre people from my street People from the street are people of the world. I dreamt last nightAll the people of the…...
A Malayalam poem by R Sangeetha

Rabbit Farmingβ€” A Malayalam Poem by R Sangeetha

Translated from the Malayalam by Nithya Mariam JohnΒ  Rabbit FarmingΒ  So, I was talking aboutΒ what we'd been engaged infor the past many yearsβ€”the art of rearing rabbits. When you chose the role of protector,I was conformed…...
Self translated Gujarati poems of Kanji Patel

Listen To My Song & Other Poemsβ€” Kanji Patel

Self-translated from the Gujarati by Kanji PatelΒ  Listen To My Song In the deepening night And in the dying word Birds sing full-throated How can life be poured Into the quivering creepers When forests have diminished…...
Yiddish poems by Pessie Hershfeld Pomerantz

String of Beads: Poems by Pessie Hershfeld Pomerantz

Translated from Yiddish by Jessica KirzaneΒ  gates.Β  somewhere, gates await us. golden-plated gates. these sorrowful days of ours like a row of lonely birch trees on a tearful autumn dayβ€” each one the same. the paths…...
Prava Varma, Malayalam poet

Canvas & Other Poemsβ€” Prabha Varma

Translated from the Malayalam by SandeepΒ  CanvasΒ  Painting for color, wall for paintingHouse for wall; thus in that order!Earth for the house to stay upon, and forβ€”That the planetary system, in that order! One creates canvas…...