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Ivy of Knowledgein the university as part of our initiationwe were led astray in a labyrinth together around twilight wandering passagesunable to find Ariadne’s threadbut the walls themselves spokecreaking ...

Three Poems by Marija Mazule Translated by Dave Seter

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Something there is that doesn't love a wall. The stiff earth bending a little. Something shimmers, something is hushed up. In Gaza with its ...

CENTO by Selena Spier

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At first, I think I’m nauseated from a bad oyster I ate. When the nausea doesn’t go away and I feel exhausted, I suspect I have lymphoma because I knew someone, a nurse in the psych ward at the hospital where I work, ...

Ducks in a Row by Louise Marburg

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My weary body is cradled in old cotton sheets in a home that rests on Californian land, where my maternal grandparents settled because, to them, New York was inhospitable in climate and temperament. Long ago, my mother ...

The Legends of Los Angeles by Taylor Harrison

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Tales from the Inuit War   It might have been two years ago when a man approached me in the street. He grabbed my arm and hastily told me the story of his humiliation. Somewhere, some people had placed some kind of ...

An excerpt from Tales from the Inuit War by Imre Wirth Translated by Gabor G. Gyukics

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      Katherine Irajpanah is a writer and postdoctoral fellow at Dartmouth College. Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in the Colorado Review, Peripheries, Only Poems, California ...

Two Poems by Katherine Irajpanah

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It was the first week of the war, and Israeli Adir fighters had taken over Tehran’s sky. In the city’s haze, they were silver ghosts—flashing in and out, leaving rubble and a low roar that trembled through the ...

Would You Call It a Miracle by Farzin Farzam

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Acts by Spencer Reece Reviewed by Alexis David Publisher: ‎Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publication date: ‎May 28, 2024 Print length‏: ‎128 pages ISBN: 978-0374100834 Love, Doubt, Wonder, Faith:  A Review of ...

Acts by Spencer Reece Reviewed by Alexis David

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These five poems are co-translations by the author with either Elina Alter or Eugene Ostashevsky, as noted after each poem. * In Memory of Alexei Navalny he died a natural deathshe died a natural ...

Poems by Inna Krasnoper Translated by Elina Alter and Eugene Ostashevsky

LAR Online, Translations

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