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Poetry Team

Roving Eye, SpotlightJanuary 29, 2015

Poet of the Month: Raoul Schrott

By Jamie Osborn, Raoul Schrott

“Poetry is a kind of echo-sounding….” Continuing the Poet of the Month interview series, Raoul Schrott talks to Jamie Osborn.

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Literature, PoetryJanuary 13, 2015

Teapot with Persimmon Fruit

By Durs Grünbein

“In times when there was nothing going on the old/ Japanese masters would paint only the inanimate…” Poem of the Week (January 13), by Durs Grünbein. Translated from the German by Karen Leeder.

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Literature, PoetryDecember 30, 2014

Erice

By Raoul Schrott

“it was known/ that they were your retinue and had vanished over/ the sea…” Poem of the Week (December 30), by Raoul Schrott. Translated from German by Iain Galbraith.

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Literature, PoetryDecember 23, 2014

Bermudiana

By Nancy Anne Miller

“Like the country you are/ named for, used to being un-/ noticed for centuries at sea…” Poem of the Week (December 23), by Nancy Anne Miller.

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Literature, PoetryDecember 22, 2014

Burn On

By David Sullivan

“Dad, who mocked religion,/ heard something singing…” Weekend Poem, by David Sullivan.

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Literature, PoetryDecember 15, 2014

Talk from the Cylinder

By Arturo Desimone

“But by sundown their empathy has its limit for me…/a jew to be despised.” Weekend poem, by Arturo Desimone.

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Literature, PoetryDecember 8, 2014

in the age of globalization

By Shana Bulhan Haydock

“the plastic is getting dirty,/ and i need to renew my nice, healthy/ amerikan passport.” Weekend poem, by Shana Bulhan Haydock.

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Literature, PoetryDecember 3, 2014

Barrel

By Deonte Osayande

“…they turned the barrel towards us/ but I didn’t see it, I was busy pulling that boy down, underneath/ my guard…” Poem of the Week (December 2), by Deonte Osayande

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Literature, PoetryNovember 26, 2014

Olive Verses

By Nineb Lamassu

“When the Damascus Steel/ lurched in the sky/ a crescent about to fall…” Poem of the Week (November 25), by Nineb Lamassu.

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Literature, PoetryNovember 24, 2014

In Conversation

By Delilah Des Anges, Kat Soini

“fear is a grain of sand/ bone fragment/ beetle of war” Weekend poem, by Delilah Des Agnes and Kat Soini.

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One last love letter...

April 24, 2021

It has taken us some time and patience to come to this decision. TMS would not have seen the success that it did without our readers and the tireless team that ran the magazine for the better part of eight years.

But… all good things must come to an end, especially when we look at the ever-expanding art and literary landscape in Pakistan, the country of the magazine’s birth.

We are amazed and proud of what the next generation of creators are working with, the themes they are featuring, and their inclusivity in the diversity of voices they are publishing. When TMS began, this was the world we envisioned…

Though the magazine has closed and our submissions shuttered, this website will remain open for the foreseeable future as an archive of the great work we published and the astounding collection of diverse voices we were privileged to feature.

If, however, someone is interested in picking up the baton, please email Maryam Piracha, the editor, at [email protected].

Farewell, fam! It’s been quite a ride.