topic: Poetry

July 5th 2012 marked the 50th anniversary of Algeria’s independence. Albert Camus’s 100th birthday was celebrated a year later, on November...

In the year 1900, when the phantoms of the nineteenth century were still controlling the destiny of Honduras, Juan Ramón Molina (1876-1908...

In his debut collection of poems Topaz , Brian Komei Dempster writes: “I feel war’s incision.” These poems cut open the past line by line,...

Translator's Preface Euphrase Kezilahabi (b. 1944) is a major Swahili author, a pioneer both in fiction – where his works move from social...

Editor's Preface For his twelfth birthday, our mother decked my brother’s cake with a squad of Marines. We sang, he blew out the candles,...

I met Gëzim Hajdari on a cold day in January 2013, in Frosinone, a medium-sized province in Ciociaria about eighty kilometers south of Rome...

Photographs by Rodrigo Grajales Murillo Living in La Bella, a township of the city of Pereira, Colombia, María Isabel never thought that...

Ghassan Zaqtan’s paralyzing poetry, translated by Fady Joudah, is laden with ruminations on death. “I’ve been dead for a long time, as you...