Poem
“I stopped and worshipped a reproduction of the Grand Canyon/ I witnessed El Greco’s Agony in the Garden (1590) through the cool glass of a car windscreen…” Weekend poem, by Rowland Bagnall.
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Double Inundations
“The happy hours pass quickly by, the bitter/ ones pass slowly. Still, they are the same.” Poem of the Week (February 17), by Gábor Schein. Translated from Hungarian by Ottilie Mulzet.
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Book Buying
“I walk around, circling the demi-gods / From previous lives, when syllables would sing / The passions of my youth…” Weekend poem, by Michael C. Blumenthal.
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Pocketwatch
“A voice asks me for a light/ The face of a woman, it wants to talk/ To me, they like wretched nocturnal faces…” Poem of the Week (February 10), by Arup K Chatterjee.
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God in Translation
“…neither time nor God belongs to anyone./ The birds know this as they peck ruby seeds/ from fenced-in pomegranate trees…” Weekend Poem, by Jacqueline Balderrama.
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Fireflies
“soon it will be dark and hard to find/ the faintest light…/ But the farthest point/ of this barren land seems to sparkle.”
Poem of the Week (February 3), by Afshan Sajjad. Translated from Urdu by Kathrine Sowerby.
Ringing Out
“He sits with his head in/ his pocket and his untouched phone ringing out…” Weekend Poem, by Emily Oldham.
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Muhammad
“…but that is a poem I cannot write./ that is a cartoon we cannot draw.” Poem of the Week (January 27), by Amna Y. Khan.
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God & Friends
“He will die for you but ignore your texts,/ and change the subject if you mention sex.” Weekend poem, by Flora de Falbe.
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Desire Grows
“deeply/ curious then to travel, be travelled through/carrying possibilities, the wish for many lives…” Poem of the Week (January 20), by Khaled Javaid Jan. Translated from Urdu by Kathrine Sowerby.
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