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 Nakayasu
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.
King Jaja
When the boats moved away from Opobo, we were there, in the broken hands of time…
Rumination #9
all the tattered things all the broken things hidden behind a sock stuck in drywall to keep out the cold a hole burrowed to store plunder hold
Monstrosity
My body is powered by internal combustion. It is a fruity cluster of lust near the office cactus…
Elegy for a Lost Year
For the dust-lined pantry. For the empty doormat. For the sparrows nesting under my car that won’t stop chirping when I scowl at them, Not this time.