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Mariana Berenice Bredow Vargas (translated from the Spanish by Forrest Gander)
we barely know, who hardly matter to us,
words that only hide us from sorrow, forgive me
for saying so, but facing death, there’s just no place
for dissimulation, and I can’t imagine what...
journal
Asymptote
Feature Date
- June 3, 2023
Series
- Editor's Choice, Translation
Selected By
- Heather Green
Katie Farris
The waiting, sleek as otters, slips
between your lips.
book
Alice James Books
Feature Date
- June 2, 2023
Series
Selected By
tatiana nascimento (translated from the Portuguese by Natália Affonso)
planning the end of the world, to me,
is an Afro-diasporic longing for
night becoming day
on the roof of your mouth,
word
apocalypse.
book
Ugly Duckling Presse
Feature Date
- June 1, 2023
Series
- Translation
Selected By
Robert Wood Lynn
memory for continuing to be the past
with a leak in it somehow I love you
a little better every day surprised by it
each morning the way I am always
surprised by how goats make the sound
of drunks making goat noises
journal
Sixth Finch
Feature Date
- May 31, 2023
Series
Selected By
Kim Hyesoon (translated from the Korean by Don Mee Choi)
The inside is life and the outside is death
Life is a sealed bag
I think that the guardrail bed
is flying away...
book
New Directions
Feature Date
- May 30, 2023
Series
- Translation
Selected By
M. L. Smoker
All that was left were the springtime faces of mountains, gazing down,
their last patches of snow, luminous. I dreamed of becoming snow melt,
gliding down the slope of history and into the valley. With the promise,
an assurance, that there is always a way to become bird, tree, water again.
book
Graywolf Press
Feature Date
- May 29, 2023
Series
- What Sparks Poetry
Selected By
Marie-Andrée Gill (translated from the French by Kristen Renee Miller)
if you are looking for me, I am home
or somewhere on Nitassinan;
all my doors and windows are open.
I’m heating the outdoors.
book
Book*hug Press
Feature Date
- May 28, 2023
Series
- Translation
Selected By
Sasha taqʷšəblu LaPointe
for me to be a real
Indian
like the ones in the movies
I was going to need
to buy a pony...
book
Milkweed Editions
Feature Date
- May 27, 2023
Series
Selected By
Michael Farrell
He lived before there was an air index
He chopped up Latin like a pickled vegetable
When he walked under a bird they stopped singing
like a light...
book
Giramondo Publishing
Feature Date
- May 26, 2023
Series
Selected By
Hussain Ahmed
We folded the grief in our pockets. The news got to his mama
before we got home. I still expect an angel to knock on our door,
before the pain slips away, before we decide who wears his clothes.
book
Black Ocean
Feature Date
- May 25, 2023
