Featured poems

Portrait of Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi

In the Company of Michelangelo

written by Al-Saddiq Al-Raddi
translated by Sarah Maguire

I

The kings who have gone
left us the remains of their forgettable names —like Aleece or Kush

They left us their peculiar crowns

صُحْبَة مايكل انجلو

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الملوكُ الذين مَضُوا ..

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Portrait of Corsino Fortes

Emigrant

written by Corsino Fortes
translated by Sean O'Brien

Every evening, sunset crooks
             its thumb across the island

Emigrante

Todas as tardes o poente dobra
            o teu polegar sobre a ilha

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Portrait of Victor Teran

Your Memory

written by Victor Teran
translated by David Shook

Nostalgia has me boxed
in the stupid wall of this afternoon.

Xhiuuba' be

Nutaabi yuuba' guendarietenala'dxi' ladxiduá'
cue' lindaa huadxí te di'.

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