The Gypsy/الغجرية
“She knows the time/ from the way the roses bend,/ from how far or near the sky is…”
Poem of the Week (January 11), by Dunya Mikhail. Translated from Arabic by the poet.
Poem of the Week
My mother calls me Srikandi
“A wren/ Of a beached thing, flailing, always once/ Something else.”
Poem of the Week (January 4), by Khairani Barokka.
Lately, I keep crossing
“I think about the woman with the palest skin/ sitting across the table from me. Think most/ of the cavernous spaces opaque by her eyes.”
Poem of the Week (December 21), by Lauren Camp.
She Plays a Child’s Game
“The windows are red/ and ringing with silhouettes.”
Poem of the Week (December 14), by Mishka Hoosen.
White Flesh, Yellow Dust
“Now there is just stillness,/ a silence not quiet, but alive/ inside the muted grace of winter light.”
Poem of the Week (December 7), by Rachel Heimowitz.
Radcliffe Line
“The line/ reincarnating as a fragile ceasefire margin,/ that moves to and fro with glacier tilt”
Poem of the Week (November 30), by Usha Kishore.
Fi Yom Wi Leila
“Spare me this Arab love for dictators tonight./ Come closer, listen—Warda is singing…”
Poem of the Week (November 23), by Zeina Hashem Beck.
The Best Medicine
“Inside is a black verse. Black like the womb of a deep river/ too black for this porcelain room…”
Poem of the Week (November 2), by Juleus Ghunta.
Opera Kabul
“there are ten moons in this room,/ a thousand miles in this corridor/ but not a single whisper inside us…”
Poem of the Week (October 26), by Nathalie Handal.
While Watching the Latest Clip Out of Douma, Syria,
“God is great,// he begs aloud—again and again,/ as if repetition could make that be,// make that true…” Poem of the Week (October 19), by Tara Ballard.
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