Distribution Center
“I’m cargo, a shipping container dripping with fetid water./ I’m hastily packed and transported, then shipped over.”
By Kim Yideum, translated from Korean by Ji Yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi and Johannes Göransson.
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Seven Years After My Literary Debut
“Poetry? I don’t have a clue about it anymore./ Dedications and contributions? To whom, for what?”
By Kim Yideum, translated from Korean by Ji Yoon Lee, Don Mee Choi and Johannes Göransson.
Nameless Woman
“Up in some cleft in the hills/ I’d go to be a nameless woman./ I’d put up gourds on the thatched roof,/ Plant squash and pumpkins in the clearing,/ Train up a hedge of wild roses,/ Let the skies down into the yard…”
By No Ch’Ån-myÅng, translated from Korean by David R. McCann.
Performer, Male
“the dawn light, as it spreads across our road,/ like the reed horn that calls out the ones who want to see:/ mixing sadness and happiness, it all opens out before us…”
By No Ch’Ån-myÅng, translated from Korean by David R. McCann.
Hunt 1947
“A nightmare that will end well. László Luka was hoping for this.” Story of the Week (June 24), by Zsuzsa Selyem. Translated from Hungarian by Erika Mihálycsa.
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The Familiar Stranger
“At that moment I understood why the man who I had left behind was not a stranger.” Story of the Week (June 17), by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen. Translated from Portuguese by Sally Bolton.
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The Congratulant
“Marius Beck had been big, in both connotations of the word.” Story of the Week (June 6), by Knud Sørensen. Translated from Danish by Michael Goldman.
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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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