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From the magazine:On Translating Václav Hrabě
Hrabě’s poems embody the Czech sixties literary scene, during which the Beat Generation’s literature permeated Czechoslovakia.
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Hrabě’s poems embody the Czech sixties literary scene, during which the Beat Generation’s literature permeated Czechoslovakia.
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A Canadian writer who has received recognition from quintessentially French institutions.
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A poet with interests in cross-border affinities in poetic history.

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Street portraits and poetry depicting the unfolding nuances of under-heralded people’s veracity and beauty.

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Disgusting, isn’t it, how much we want to be loved?

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Surely the experience of immigration reinforced my predilections, but some people are simply born looking backward.

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Where my ex deemed me unmaternal because of my writing, the opposite is true: I’m no good to anyone if I don’t preserve this one thing for myself.

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On Translating Halina Poświatowska
There’s playfulness and a love of life set against the specter of death.
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On Translating Blaže Koneski
Koneski’s contributions as a scholar, linguist, academic, poet, fiction writer, and translator were foundational in the development of Modern Macedonian literature.
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On Translating Shamsher Bahadur Singh
The only world he cared for was poetry.
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Editor’s Note, May 2026
There’s no consistently iambic verse in the May issue, but there is—as always—form.
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On loving poets through decades of poetry and living.

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A Poet of Magnitude and Intimacy: On Linda Gregg
Gregg lived as she wrote, winnowing down life to bare essentials, which, in turn, made space for the visionary to reveal itself.

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Her poems were lessons in how not to name things, but to instead evoke the outlines of what is seen.
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On Translating Dalia Taha
Taha asks us to attend to what language itself crumbles before.
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Editor’s Note, April 2026
Poetry moves differently from every other art.
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Editor’s Note, March 2026
Is renewal a necessity for art rather than simply a possibility?
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An intimate and compassionate voice from a lost paradise.

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Beyond Black Appalachia
Affrilachian evolution and postcolonial community in the poetry of Frank X Walker.