Sunday, October 25, 2026

Afternoons and Early Evenings by Louise Glück

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Afternoons and Early Evenings The beautiful golden days when you were soon to be dying but could still enter into random conversations with ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Chinese New Year by Justin Chin 

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Chinese New Year   It is Chinese New Year and I am standing at the corner of Broadway and Kearny feeling the warm brush of bodies scurrying ...
Tuesday, September 8, 2026

Autobiography by Nazim Hikmet

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Autobiography I was born in 1902 I never once went back to my birthplace I don't like to turn back at three I served as a pasha's gr...
Tuesday, September 1, 2026

Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog by Kaveh Akbar

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Love Poem with Tumor and Petrified Dog There is a tumor in my sacroiliac joint  and snowflakes in my coffee.  I’m in Iowa with the cats and ...
Saturday, August 29, 2026

The Dictator in Prison by Adèlia Prado

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The Dictator in Prison   The dictator is writing poetry, poor fellow, poor us for saying poor fellow, since he, too, has a memory to conjure...

Hidden Things by Constantine P. Cavafy (Two Translations)

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Hidden Things   From all I did and from all I said they shouldn’t try to find out who I was. An obstacle was there and it distorted my actio...
Friday, August 28, 2026

The Gods Abandon Antony by Constantine P. Cavafy (Two Translations)

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The Gods Abandon Antony When suddenly, at midnight, there comes the sound of an invisible procession passing by with exquisite music playing...