Saadia Peerzada presents a poem that trails behind the slow passage of the years that are shaped by absence, memory, and quiet and subtle endurance. These verses could as easily be about the unmaking of time that rests upon “a microhistory that tries to put into language an experience that is fragme

In Ahymon Ayoub Khan's poem, the body is rendered as unfamiliar terrain that is unhabituated to itself in verses that treat it “as a site of grief.” The poet indicates that “the weight of grief is so palpable” that “the body offers no resistance” to it, and instead “submits”—as no other recourse is

Rabiya Fayaz presents a poem that embodies a sustained interrogation of selfhood, addressing the reader through a series of insistently ethical questions that unsettle inherited measures of knowledge, achievement, and respectability. Written in transliterated Urdu and presented here with correspondi

The quotidian can never cease to impress with great power the greater wonder that can emerge from everyday life and our lived experiences. These five poems by Carol Blaizy D’Souza move with subtle confidence across inner and outer geographies, often reflecting how travel and wandering also take plac

Nigerian poet Annah Atane presents two poems that inhabit the horror of war and massacre where collective catastrophe is confronted with private mourning. These verses draw their imagery from slaughter, war, and the fragility of hope and the despair where memory is born from “butchery.” “Scalpels on