Translator's Note:
At 5:00 AM on January 20, 2025, the new American regime fulfilled its first campaign promise: shutting down the appointment functionality of the CBP One smartphone app. Immediately, 300,000 asylum ...
a la plaza giordano bruno by Jorge Ríos translated by Ivy Raff
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Meatballs with Tomato SauceMy joy is filled with fragrant scentsthat blend with flavors, rich and intense,a simple taste I sometimes adore––meatballs with tomato sauce, nothing more.I search for the ladder in the ...
Three Poems by Livia Aymonino Translated by Caroline Laganas
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ZEJNEPA AROSE EARLYZejnepa arose early.She arose before dawn.She swept her vast quarters,She baked hot loaves of bread,She cobbled light footgear,Then she began looking for her Kurto.She went far in search of him.There ...
Gorani Lyrics Translated by Denis Ferhatović
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The Revolver
(Chapter one of the novel titled The Wonderful Life of Kornél Janega)
My mom, my late stepfather’s two daughters, and I were sitting in a nine-year-old diesel station wagon with a revolver wrapped in a ...
Short Story by Gábor Kálmán Translated by Tímea Sipos
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VenusesI’m groundwater. An enormous furbrat. Shot behind the fence, they died behindthe fence. Juice comes to the surface from the reeds and bark and from the mound of light bulbs. Wantto climb? Here, here, she hissed ...
Three Poems by Tomaž Šalamun Translated by Brian Henry
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A Woman Runs Within a Newspaper, Ablaze Sell my death to the newspapers,and tell the news to the ravens.I opposed the rocksthat agitated the river’s quiet,derailing the fish’s gentle strolls.I placed myself in the ...
A Poem by Younes Rezaie Translated by Himan Heidari
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Lunch under the naked sky
by Jana Putrle Srdić
co-translated with Sue Vickerman
What day is it?
The first of Microseason 46.
Ok. In four days, all insects will be underground, then it’s our next shift.
Four days. ...
A Short Story by Jana Putrle Srdić Translated by Jana Putrle Srdić and Sue Vickerman
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Your Wi-Fi is a birdsongHere it is, National Bison Day, and I’m left aloneby the group, which makes me the easiest prey.So let’s go over the safety stuff. If a bison loves you,it will show you with its head. Well, ...

