Vladimir Mayakovsky, tr. Bob Perelman & Kathy Lewis, from "A Cloud in Trousers" in Russian Poetry: The Modern Period, ed. John Glad & Daniel Weissbort
Mary Pinkoski, What Makes You Come Alive?
Joy Harjo, In Mad Love and War; “Bird”
Madhur Anand, Parasitic Oscillations; “Slow Dance”
Hatim Al Kinani, tr. & ed. Adil Babikir, Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology; “Skies”
Dieu Dinh, Tender Cracks; “Me and the Stars (Juvenilia)”
from "scent of orange blossoms: haiku/senryu" by Teresa Mei Chuc
[ Text ID: did the atom / ever know its destiny / how our hands create? ]
Mohammed el-Hassan Salim Himmaid, tr. & ed. Adil Babikir, Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology; “Uncle Abdur Raheem”
Kamal Elgizouli, tr. & ed. Adil Babikir, Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology; “A Cell the Size of New Year’s Eve”
Ali Abdel Qayyoum, tr. & ed. Adil Babikir, Modern Sudanese Poetry: An Anthology; “Who Triggered the Stone’s Tongue?”
Charles Baudelaire, tr. Aaron Poochigian, The Flowers of Evil, from “Death”; “The Dream of an Odd Man”
— Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
[text ID: What is lurking in the mirror? / Grief.]
Yehuda Amichai, tr. Ruth Nevo, Travels
Yehuda Amichai, tr. Ruth Nevo, Travels
Ocean Vuong, Time Is a Mother; “Not Even”
