Martha Nasibú, from Memories of an Ethiopian Princess / Memorie di una principessa etiope (Beat, 2012). Translated by Aaron Robertson. Reprinted by permission of the translator. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2019.
Elena Shvarts, “Why, Let the Stricken Deer Go Weep”. Translated by Sasha Dugdale. Reprinted by permission of the translator. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2019.
Elias Khoury, from My Name Is Adam (MacLehose Press, 2018). Translated by Humphrey Davies. Reprinted by permission of the translator and the publisher.
Ashur Etwebi, “A Dog Hides Its Tail in the Darkness of Night”, in Asymptote, April 2018. Translated by Ashur Etwebi and James Byrne.
Mohsen Emadi, from “The Poem”, in Standing on Earth (Phoneme Media, 2016). Translated by Lyn Coffin. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.
Gabriela Mistral, “The Foreign Woman”, in Tala (Buenos Aires: Sur, 1938). Translated by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse and David Shook. Reprinted by permission of the translators. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2019.
Nelly Sachs, “I’m searching for my Right to Roots / Ich bin meinem Heimatrecht auf der Spur”, in Gedichte (Bibliothek Suhrkamp, 1977/2017). Translated by Martin Kratz. Reprinted by permission of the translator and the estate. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2019.
Luis Cernuda, “Impression of Exile”, in Forbidden Pleasures: New Selected Poems, 1924–1949 (Black Widow Press, 2015). Translated by Stephen Kessler.
Fernando Sylvan, “Invasion”, in 7 Poemas de Timor (Lisbon, 1965). Translated by David Shook. Reprinted by permission of the translator. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2019.
Gisèle Prassinos, “Nobody Is Going Anywhere”, in La vie, la voix (Flammarion, 1971). Translated by Jade Cuttle. Reprinted by permission of the translator. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2019.
Roque Dalton, “Spite”, in Cordite Poetry Review, 2013. Translated by Luis Gonzalez Serrano. Reprinted by permission of the translator. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2019.
Breyten Breytenbach, from Notes from the Middle World (Haymarket Books, 2009). Reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher.
Mimi Khalvati, “The Soul Travels on Horseback”, in The Weather Wheel (Carcanet, 2014). Reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher.
Michael Schmidt, “The Freeze”, in Poetry Nation 5, 1975. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Aamer Hussein, from “Nine Postcards from Sanlucar de Barrameda”, in Insomnia (Telegram Books, 2007). Reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher.
Fred D’Aguiar, “At the Grave of the Unknown African”, in Callaloo 15, 1992. Reprinted by permission of the author.
Farhad Pirbal, “Waste”. Translated by Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse. Reprinted by permission of the translator. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2019.
Iman Mersal, “The Idea of Houses”. Translated by Robyn Creswell. Reprinted by permission of the author and the translator. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2019.
Sholeh Wolpé, “The World Grows Blackthorn Walls”. Reprinted by permission of the author. All rights reserved. Copyright © 2019.
Kaveh Bassiri, “99 Names of Exile”, in The Forbidden: Poems from Iran and its Exiles (MSU Press, 2012). Edited by Sholeh Wolpé. Reprinted by permission of the editor and the publisher.
Fady Joudah, “He came, the humanitarian man”, in The Earth in the Attic (Yale University Press, 2008). Reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher.
Jee Leong Koh, “To a Young Poet”, in Steep Tea (Carcanet Press, 2015). Reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher.
Jenny Xie, “Rootless”, in Eye Level (Graywolf, 2018). Reprinted by permission of the author and the publisher.
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