Robert Hirschfield pays an insightful and heartfelt tribute to a haiku master of South India.
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Hurt, like hammers, can be aimed at the wrong targets. How much can we trust the carpenter? Three new poems from Ally Chua.
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How different are we from the insects we admire and kill? Eric Abalajon translates three poems by the Filipino poet Jhio Jan Navarro.
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Like “the signpost that un-alives a robber”, the dangerous side of language is on full display in Nnadi Samuel’s stunning poems about power, land, pain, and Indigenous lineage.
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Read and listen to the winners of our 10th Singapore Poetry Contest!
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With this set of three watery poems, Jessie Raymundo meditates on what it means to return—to a place, a loved one, or a promise.
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Can we bear to consume beauty in a world seemingly intent on consuming it too? Ananya Shah shows us how she makes peace with her dead.
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What do dating apps, border control, and HRT documentation have in common? Find out in Winter Chen’s explosive movement between the forms and functions that draw a life’s rawest borders.
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Have you ever been late to an appointment, or haunted by someone’s late arrival? Sayan Aich Bhowmik’s poems present us with seasons and people who have taken their time.
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In the wake of a departure, what has – and is – left? Two poems by Oindri Sengupta.
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From salt to frozen yogurt, Valerie Eng takes us through a jumbled journey of flavors—equal parts liquid and sharp, joyful and grieving.
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With these three poems, Anuradha VIjayakrishnan attends to distance, belonging, and endings, showing how life endures even in the most hostile spaces.
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“The sea wind has upset the soil.” With great delicacy, Maggie Wang interlaces personal and domestic concerns with ecological troubles.
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When the world, both human and natural, is all askew, what can you do? Three new poems by Ishita Basu Malik responds to such estrangement.
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Two poems by Paul Catafago, a Palestinian living and writing in the diaspora.
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According to his translator Atar Hadari, the late Israeli poet Avraham Chalfi was “a character actor, a clown, a dandy, and a man about town in Tel Aviv.” He was also a poet beloved by the people for his romantic and mystical verses.
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New translations by Rahad Abir of two poems by the young revolutionary and Bengali poet Sukanta Bhattacharya.
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How does one square the circle? Yap Hao Yang finds that impossible possibility in his review of Tse Hao Guang’s The International Left-Hand Calligraphy Association.
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“In every cathedral, a man is waiting/ to be ruined.” Three poems by Conan Tan about the life and death, the movement and the stillness, of desire.
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Marylyn Tan’s poem “Queer Bodies” inspires a dramatic response written and directed by Audrey Forman.
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