Monthly Archives: June 2023

‘Eat Bitterness’: Xi Jinping

The ditches at the edge of the field were thick with poke, which I did like, even loved. The poison root of the poke grows down deep and snaggled like a mandrake.(Kathryn Nuernberger, from “A Sense of Belonging,” Poetry, May … Continue reading

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Translating a Cryptic Text Helps Weather It

Rodney Gómez, “Mortification by Census,” Poetry, May 2023. Mortification by Census brown but which kind?no entry for oleanderno entry for ocean spume this cell by which various selves are collocatedthis cell by which various selves are evaluated to geocode the … Continue reading

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Mona Kareem’s ‘Nights’: Stanzas 5-7 (End)

This post is continued from here. Poetry, May 2023 publishes the Arabic text of Mona Kareem’s poem Lailayāt (“Nights”) along with a translation into English by Sara Elkamel. My translation follows below. 5Born between a tree’s two hands, a croneproffers … Continue reading

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The Devil in the Machine

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The only social medium I frequent is YouTube. While eating meals I watch elephant videos, Fry and Laurie, sports brawls, blooper reels, and Tuba Skinny. There’s also a good series by a guy who farts in public. The engagement algorithm, … Continue reading

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