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World Poetry publishes English-language translations of poetry from a broad range of languages and traditions, bringing important works of the past and present from around the world to readers in high-quality, affordable editions.

My writing was not more important to me than my wish to have a family. And this is the well from which much of my shame flowed.

What other kind of writer puts so much stock in the quasi-religious notion of a calling or a vocation? 

If you can describe it, you must not be knowing it.

Chūya is an essential part of the canon of modern Japanese poetry.

What disarms us in Omori’s tanka is not confessional disclosure, but movement.

airsickness does not seek to “cure” this condition, but instead teaches us to stare our fate in the face—and to laugh in, to spit on, to kiss this face.

Poetry, no matter if it’s coming in sixteen bars or sixteen stanzas, insists on communing.

What gets lost in our eagerness to acknowledge that much gets lost in translation?

I closed my eyes and surrendered to the quiet—which was not as quiet as I thought. 

On found language and the lyrical voice

Essex Hemphill's funny, sad, profane, sexy poetry. 

Bamboo Ridge Press is Hawai‘i's longest-running independent literary small press, celebrated for publishing one of the nation's oldest continuously running literary journals.

His cultural activism made him one of the greatest supporters of Filipino poets and a beloved mentor to many.

Trustees celebrated the 20th anniversary of Poetry Out Loud at the National Finals

What is the human meaning of a tombstone anyhow? 

Mendoza Receives a $20,000 Prize as Champion

On there being no such thing as a “correct” or “definitive” translation.

Joining together in the place of a poem

Dario Bellezza scandalized Italy with unabashedly queer poetry about cruising and AIDS. Nearly thirty years after his death, a new translation brings his work into English.