"Red goes on / in my cavernous eyes."
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Poetry Runner Up: “Claiming Honey”
"My mother knows how / to choose the best: the ones / with smooth pale skin. / She presses a honeydew / to her cheek,...
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Poetry Runner-Up: “The Washing Society”
"The poem wants to try on her voice, / saying I did this work...."
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue Poetry Winner: Poems by Winniebell Xinyu Zong
"oh what if / I / will be the reason / you are re- / membered."
Two Bijan Elahi poems translated by Kayvan Tahmasebian and Rebecca Ruth Gould
It is neither strange/ nor fun/ when they knock on the door.
Womxn’s History Month Special Issue: Winners & Honorable Mentions Announced
Columbia Journal is excited to announce the winners and finalists of our inaugural Womxn's History Month Special Issue, in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and art. We...
Three Poems by Gala Mukomolova
"Clutch / of snakes with synchronous hearts, / black ditch of my sleep."
“Hebrew and You”, Poem in translation
Draw a circle around yourself/ and pray seventy years/ for rain that it might come/ and for the melody.
‘This world has not yet become ash’: an Interview with Jane Hirshfield
In this interview, Columbia Journal online arts editor Jai Hamid Bashir talks to poet Jane Hirshfield about her ninth poetry collection Ledger (Knopf, March 10,...
Aleš Šteger’s The Word Bare translated from the Slovenian by Brian Henry
With a face To the sky. It starts to rain. The bare word Slowly sinks in The dug-up mud.
Two Poems by Phyllis Peters
"On a warm summer evening, / absurdity darts overhead / like bats."
Review: No Roses from My Mouth by Dr. Stella Nyanzi
The accomplishment of 'No Roses from My Mouth' by Ugandan renowned feminist and queer rights advocate Stella Nyanzi, it not so much that the poetry...