Language for a new century: contemporary poetry from the Middle East, Asia, and beyond

Parsed into Colors

DAVID AVIDAN, Dance Music

XUE DI, The Wanderer

DIANA DER-HOVANESSIAN, Two Voices

JESSICA HAGEDORN, Motown/Smokey Robinson

MAMDOUH ADWAN, Tired of Soliloquies

KAMARAN MUKRI, Star, Bird & Autumn

NOOZAR ELIAS, Stars and the Dawn

MANJU KANCHULI, The Way of a River, The Forest, Night

FAZIL HÜSNÜ DAGLARCA, Dead

KITAMURA, TARO, excerpts from "A Man of the Port"

LEUNG PING-KWAN, Postcards of Old Hong Kong

RAVI SHANKAR, Exile

TAHA MUHAMMAD ALI, Postoperative Complications Following the Extraction of Memory

YAN LI, Warm Inspiration

NIRMALENDU GOON, Firearm

PATRICK ROSAL, About the White Boys Who Drove By a Second Time to Throw a Bucket of Water on Me

GREGORY DJANIKIAN, The Boy Who Had Eleven Toes

CESAR RUIZ AQUINO, She Comes with Horns and Tail

ISHIGAKI RIN, Plucking Flowers

KAZI NAZRUL ISLAM, I Sing of Equality

FIRUZA MAMMADLI, Leaning My Shoulder to the Sun.

XIE YE, At Last I Turn My Back

MOHAN KOIRÃLÃ, It's a Mineral, the Mind

TSUJI YUKIO, Rum and Snow

K. DHONDUP, Exile

MOHJA KAHF, Lifting the Hagar Heel

PURNA BAHADUR VAIDYA, Water Is Water

WADIH SA'ADEH, Genesis

YONG SHU HOONG, Chicago

BOEY KIM CHENG, Wanton with James

ISSA MAKHLOUF, We Travel

SAQI FAROOQI, An Injured Tomcat in an Empty Sack

ZAKARIYYA MUHAMMAD, Everything

MUHAMMED AL-ACHA'ARI, excerpt from "Little Wars"

SYED SHAMSUL HAQ, Poem 240

UNSI AL-HAJ, is This You or the Tale?

YI SHA, excerpt from "Wonders Never Cease"

NAZIK AL-MALA'IKA, Insignificant Woman

MEENA ALEXANDER, Floating on Fifth

BIMAL NIBHA, Cycle

GIEVE PATEL, Squirrels in Washington

SA'ADYYA MUFFAREH, excerpt from "The Spell of Blazing Trees"

NURIT ZARHI, "For they are at the center of my life"

WING TEK LUM, The Butcher

AHMAD 'ABD AL-MU'TI HIJAZI, The Lonely Woman's Room

HATIF JANABI, Paradises, Soldiers, and Stags

LI-YOUNG LEE, Immigrant Blues

BAROUYR SEVAG, The Analysis of Yearning (Garod)

SHIRLEY GEOK-LIN LIM, Scavenging on Double Bluff.

Slips and Atmospherics

YANG LIAN, Knowing

RUKMINI BHAYA NAIR, Genderole

CATHY PARK HONG, Ontology of Chang and Eng, the Original Siamese Twins

CHE QIANZI, Sentences

JOSÉ GARCIA VILLA, The Anchored Angel

FATIMA MAHMOUD, excerpt from "What Was Not Conceivable"

ARUN KOLATKAR, The Alphabet

LAWRENCE JOSEPH, Then

BRIAN KIM STEFANS, from The Screens

HABIB TENGOUR, The River of the Cyclops

PRAGEETA SHARMA, A Brazen State

MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE, Safety

SARAH GAMBITO, Scene: a Loom

KATAYOON ZANDVAKILI, The Eglantine Deal

AIMEE NEZHUKUMATATHIL, By the Light of a Single Worm

MARILYN CHIN, Tonight While the Stars are Shimmering (New World Duet)

JOHN YAU, In the Fourth Year of The Plague

AHMAD DAHBOUR, The Hands Again

LALE MÜLDÜR, 311 SERIES 2 (TURKISH RED)*

TADA CHIMAKO, Haiku

TAUFIQ RAFAT, Lights

YEOW KAI CHAT, Quarterly Report No. 7: Epiphytes and Vetiver Control

KITASONO KATUE, Oval Ghost

TAN LIN, excerpt from BlipSoak01

WAFAA' LAMRANI, A Talisman

MONICA YOUN, Stereoscopes

BAHTIYAR VAHAPZADE, Pauses

ARVIND KRISHNA MEHROTRA, The World's a Printing House

ETEL ADNAN, Insomnia

ALAMGIR HASHMI, Snow

ABED ISMAEL, The Poem-The Mirage

ARUNDHATHI SUBRAMANIAM, Strategist

MARJORIE EVASCO, Dreamweavers

KHALED MATTAWA, Texas in the Afternoon

TSAI YIM PUI, enchantress

YU JIAN, excerpts from "Anthology of Notes"

BAHA ZAIN, Language

VIDHU AGGARWAL, Customs House

OUYANG YU, A poem, long overdue

JALAL EL-HAKMAOUI, You Hear Me Jim Morrison?

B.S. MARDHEKAR, The Forests of Yellow Bamboo Trees

PAOLO JAVIER, DJ Cam 1

SALIM BARAKAT, Index of Creatures

RICARDO M. DE UNGRIA, Notations on the Prospects for Peace

SRIKANTH REDDY, Loose Strife with Apiary

JENNY BOULLY, from The Body

MICHAEL ONDAATJE, Proust in the Waters.