From salt to frozen yogurt, Valerie Eng takes us through a jumbled journey of flavors—equal parts liquid and sharp, joyful and grieving.
Read MoreWith these three poems, Anuradha VIjayakrishnan attends to distance, belonging, and endings, showing how life endures even in the most hostile spaces.
Read More“The sea wind has upset the soil.” With great delicacy, Maggie Wang interlaces personal and domestic concerns with ecological troubles.
Read MoreWhen the world, both human and natural, is all askew, what can you do? Three new poems by Ishita Basu Malik responds to such estrangement.
Read MoreTwo poems by Paul Catafago, a Palestinian living and writing in the diaspora.
Read MoreAccording to his translator Atar Hadari, the late Israeli poet Avraham Chalfi was “a character actor, a clown, a dandy, and a man about town in Tel Aviv.” He was also a poet beloved by the people for his romantic and mystical verses.
Read MoreNew translations by Rahad Abir of two poems by the young revolutionary and Bengali poet Sukanta Bhattacharya.
Read MoreHow does one square the circle? Yap Hao Yang finds that impossible possibility in his review of Tse Hao Guang’s The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association.
Read More“In every cathedral, a man is waiting/ to be ruined.” Three poems by Conan Tan about the life and death, the movement and the stillness, of desire.
Read MoreMarylyn Tan’s poem “Queer Bodies” inspires a dramatic response written and directed by Audrey Forman.
Read MoreIf you could speak with Mr. Sulu, what would you say? What about Anna May Wong? Kathleen Hellen knows what she would say.
Read MoreKelly Sadikun responds to Marylyn Tan’s poem “Nasi Kang Kang” with a fantastic visualization.
Read MoreIn the poems of Shatrughna Pandab, translator Pitamber Naik urges you to hear the voice of the original inhabitants of Odisha, India, who live like strangers in their own land.
Read MoreWhat is it like to give birth in America? What is it like to be praised for speaking good English? Three new poems, by Mia Ayumi Malhotra, find a way out of the bewilderment.
Read MoreAnnouncing the winners of the 9th Singapore Poetry Contest, aka, the snail contest.
Read MoreThe body as a vessel of experience. The body out of place. Three visceral poems by Yashasvi Vachhani.
Read MoreThe dangers of looking are ameliorated by the beauty of singing in two new poems by Ashish Kumar Singh, “A Poem on the Nature of Things” and “Me Looking At Him.”
Read MoreIn these two poems, Jake Dennis persuades us a silver streak on our new carpet is a journey, and plumeria cuttings are totems.
Read MoreIn this poetic meditation, Tim Tim Cheng finds death’s accents in a moon elder, a pillar of shame, a fat dick, and a line that keeps closing in.
Read MoreIn these moving poems about transphobia, arrests of street protesters, and a missing daughter, Yee Heng Yeh speaks imaginatively and empathetically from the viewpoints of oppressors and victims.
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