Poems by a legendary Granadan aristocrat and one of the most celebrated Andalusian female poets of medieval Arabic literature Ḥafṣa bint al-Ḥājj ar-Rakūniyya translated by...
Literary Citizenry: A Podcast Interview with Publisher and Poet Joe Pan
Columbia Journal is proud to introduce our new podcast. Episode One details a conversation between former Columbia Journal editors Shalvi Shah and Emma Ginader, Columbia...
Above One’s Bend
Perish the wilderness—Laura Ingalls Wilder’s wildness.
Five Hindi Poems of Kunwar Narain in Translation
Poems translated from the Hindi into the English by Apurva Narain
Readings and Conversation about the Stylistic Multitudes in Galina Rymbu’s Poetry and Life in Space
Illumination of Darkness with Direction. Mesmerizing readings and conversation about Life in Space by Galina Rymbu and her translators
Three Poems by Abraham Sutzkever Translated from the Yiddish
The following poems are taken from Abraham Sutzkever’s collection, Poems from My Diary.
Two Poems by Timothy Berrigan
To put names and faces to the numbers of our long time together.
Three Poems by Manouchehr Atashi and Mohammad Biabani Translated from the Persian
Poems translated by Marjan Modarres Sabzevari
Three Poems by Pamela Proietti Translated from the Italian
Three Poems (Thirty-two Hours, Four Days, That Which Remains) translated by Stephen Eric Berry and Donna Mancusi-Ungaro Hart from the Italian.
A Deconstruction of ‘Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From’ with the Translation Editors
A conversation between the Columbia Journal Translation Editors about the main topics traversing through ‘Some Girls Walk Into The Country They Are From’ by Sawako...
The sign for power
li 力 in Chinese, turned up-side down jackknifes into the romanized number four, or death.
Whimsy
The cure for pain / is inside the crane / that drifts heavy / over the house.