Inspection
“I did not have much to do/ with god// So I believed my friends, and biked through traffic jams and rain,/ to find a Shiv Mandir, near Rangirkhari market…”
Poem of the Week (June 22), by Goirick Brahmachari.
Poem of the Week
MedellÃn
“I said no, not this moment,/ but still I glided through music, puzzle pieces,/ fitting rooms…” Poem of the Week (June 15), by Mehrnoosh Torbatnejad.
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The Assembly of the Head
“Friendship of four and flour, a pair and a pregnant mouse,// five swine must breed to double their number….” Poem of the Week (June 8), by Julia Rose Lewis.
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Do you believe in doctors?
“…Now they peer into the darkness/ and sort out right from that which wronged you./ They find an offender…” Poem of the Week (June 1), by Adham Smart.
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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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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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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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My Weakness
“As a boy I gave a hateful teacher/ a list of one hundred quotes on compassion from the Quran./ He hung a poster of George Bush by the blackboard/ and started purposely mispronouncing my name…” Poem of the Week (March 16), by Kaveh Akbar.
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Two Figures in Superposition
“Look how the words bend/ back and touch themselves;/ or break…” Poem of the Week (March 9), by Fintan Calpin.
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