NADIA ANJUMAN SMOKE DRIFTS: SELECTED POEMS Translated from Persian by DIANA ARTERIAN and MARINA OMAR

Backlit Podcast with Abena Ntoso Night: Attention, Serendipity, and Hope in Language and Life

A new volume of the famous posthumous verses of the famous Peruvian man of letters

translated from the german by Ann Cotten & Anna-Isabella Dinwoodie *first true story (from “three true stories”) the fence is a window and the window is a room and the room is a tab…

A new volume of the famous posthumous verses of the famous Peruvian man of letters

Poets George Abraham, Moheb Soliman and Mizna Director and Publisher Lana Barkawi join Rail contributor Cole Swensen for a conversation on Zoom.

Join us for an evening of reading and conversation with Cristina Pérez Díaz and Isabel Sobral Campos celebrating their new poetry books.

The history of Classics is marked by no small forms of epistemic, political, and material violence. What would it take to radically reimagine the discipline, both in theory and in practice? How might ...

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SAMER ABU HAWWASH RUINS and OTHER POEMS Translated from Arabic by HUDA J. FAKHREDDINE

In Jewish mysticism and folklore, a dybbuk is the displaced soul of a dead person. It is popularly believed to be a “clinging spirit”—a disturbed soul that possesses us. Such a spirit that seeks reven...

A review of an Italian poet’s English-language debut

LIESL UJVARY GOOD & SAFE Translated from German by ANN COTTEN and ANNA-ISABELLA DINWOODIE

Words Without Borders seeks applicants for its education fellowship, designed to provide in-depth experience to individuals interested in a career in world literature—whether as scholars, educators, o...

Submissions World Poetry Review is open for submissions for two issues per year, during the months of August and February. Submission Requirements: Submissions should be sent by email by the transl…

ZUZANNA GINCZANKA ON CENTAURS AND OTHER POEMS Translated from Polish by ALEX BRASLAVSKY

Is it old age to coil inward like a cloud and thunder without rain?

How does something “die octoberish?”

New York, NY (July 24, 2025)—The Academy of American Poets, a leading champion of

Wouldn’t it be enough for poetry to remain as something that doesn’t really serve any function, something without a definite meaning?

Wirpsza’s work may provide some guidance as to what the artist’s role could be in the face of humanity’s darker moments. . .

mit Maria Stepanova, Sasha Dugdale und Eugene Ostashevsky Eine Lesung mit Übersetzungen und Antworten auf Winterpoem 20/21 von Maria Stepanova – ein vielstimmiges Langgedicht über das Leben im politis...

A new translation of the important Polish poet

In the first three days I heard my mother calling me as if from behind a wind blowing the other direction what are you doing? she asked me upset that I was ignoring her and didn’t even see her and the...