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This folio presents ten contemporary poets from nine countries, all of whom faced persecution, war, or genocide, as well as threats to their safety because of their writing.

Poetry, I sensed, might dwell in indeterminacy rather than seek to resolve it. 

Which standards are you looking to deviate from? 

I am transported to his wry and melancholy Buenos Aires.

Resilience is not an ideal, but is instead a fact of life for many poets across the globe. 

Hrabě’s poems embody the Czech sixties literary scene, during which the Beat Generation’s literature permeated Czechoslovakia. 

A Canadian writer who has received recognition from quintessentially French institutions.

A poet with interests in cross-border
affinities in poetic history. 

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

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

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

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.

There’s playfulness and a love of life set against the specter of death. 

Koneski’s contributions as a scholar, linguist, academic, poet, fiction writer, and translator were foundational in the development of Modern Macedonian literature.

The only world he cared for was poetry.

There’s no consistently iambic verse in the May issue, but there is—as always—form. 

On loving poets through decades of poetry and living.

Gregg lived as she wrote, winnowing down life to bare essentials, which, in turn, made space for the visionary to reveal itself.

Her poems were lessons in how not to name things, but to instead evoke the outlines of what is seen.