Quarter to War
“The footfalls fading from the streets/ The trees departing from the avenues/ The sweat evaporating from the skin…” By Jumoke Verissimo.
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Sometimes, I Close My Eyes
“sometimes, this is the way of the world,/ the simple, ordinary world, where things are/ sometimes too ordinary to matter. Sometimes,/ I close my eyes, so I don’t have to see the world.” By Patricia Jabbeh Wesley.
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Artificial Islands
“Also I want to/ raze the mall// to the unstable/ ground, milk it/ like it milked me.” Poem of the Week (May 4), by Jasmine Nikki ‘Nikay’ C. Paredes.
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The Day After Trump
“I want a dusty screaming peacock…” Poem of the Week (April 27), by Barbara March.
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The Names of Spices
“it’s garam masala, you say// garam masala from the bazaar/ behind your home, in the Old City,/ your tongue travelling back/ into the winding streets, mazelike…” Weekend poem, by Syed Jarri Haider.
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Fire, House, Me
“I have no tears, no salt, no rage—/ Bless the ruined house, bless our temple…” Poem of the Week (April 20), by Kirun Kapur.
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Storm Sonnets: Desmond
“For all of what we knew as Christmas/ It came unspent, and there was not a room/ That did not seal itself against that tide/ Of fog and rain…” Weekend poem, by Theophilus Kwek.
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In Memory of M./M. emlékére
“Am I a coward? I commune with death every day./ I’m more afraid of people….” Poem of the Week (April 13), by Zsuzsa Takács, translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.
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Six Ethiopian poets of the diaspora
A selection of poems from contemporary poets of the Ethiopian diaspora, including work by Alemayehu Gebrehiwot, Alemtsehay Wodajo, Alemu Tebeje Ayele, Amha Asfaw, Hama Tuma, and Lena Bezawork Grönlund.
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Five Ethiopian poets of the 20th century
A selection of poems from Ethiopia’s best-loved poets of the 20th century, including work by Kebede Mikael, Mengistu Lemma, Gebre Kristos Desta, Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin, and Solomon Deressa.
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