The Keyboards
“As a child, she had prayed for Mozart.” Story of the Week (January 27), by Teolinda Gersão. Selected and translated from the Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa.
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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.
I Will Go
“The taxi that takes me to the station so early in the morning doesn’t have any headlights, any meter, not even a floor in some places.” Story of the Week (December 11), by Nafissatou Dia. Translated from the French by Sébastien Doubinsky and Casey Harding.
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Half the Kingdom/Det halve rige
“I neither cut off a toe, nor shaved off a heel/ just minced my way through it all/ with a smile…” Poem of the Week (October 12), by Jesper Wung-Sung, translated from Danish by Lindy Falk van Rooyen.
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Keeping a date/Acudiendo a la cita
“The fugitive’s road is always long./ Every place is always too/ close to be the end.” Poem of the Week (August 17), by Felipe BenÃtez Reyes. Translated from Spanish by Anna Rosenwong.
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Woman
“She comes each morning/ with the sea on her head.// Fresh oysters for sale, fresh oysters!/ She cries like the sunlight…”
By Kang Ūn-gyo, translated from Korean by Kevin O’Rourke.
Spider
“What I throw out to the world/ is a silver thread, that thin line I throw…”
By Kang Ŭn-gyo, translated from Korean by Ann Y. Choi.
Ghost School
“I teach a class to the newly enrolled ghosts…/I make them practice so they won’t be shocked even if they leave no footprints on the
snowfield/ I make them practice falling asleep floating in air/ I teach them such things as how to overcome melancholy inside a coffin…”
By Kim Hyesoon, translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi.
When the Plug Gets Unplugged
“you and I begin to rot in the open. I can’t leave the lights on for you any longer. We can no longer look each other in the face…”
By Kim Hyesoon, translated from Korean by Don Mee Choi.
Fluxfilm No. 4 (Lesbian)
“A writer has his hands deep in his pockets, pulling out his machine guns/ and rifles.”
By Kim Yideum, translated from Korean by Ji Yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi and Johannes Göransson.