The Death of Noah

by Yoni Hammer-Kossoy

Grace After Meals

by Maya Tevet Dayan, translated by Jane Medved

My father stands over the pots
in my house, baking sweet potatoes,
giving me back the taste
of a world where mothers still exist.

His hands slice thin answers
to my …

Kanafeh

by Iman Jaml Arbasy

I am alone, sitting in a restaurant in Jerusalem.
I order a Kanafeh for me and my friend—
who never arrives. The waiter makes a noise when
he puts the …

1. Opening, from The Burden of Nisan

by Shimon Adaf, translated by Becka Mara McKay

The poem carried her
through time

she lay reading on the balcony
on a sun-wombed border

a chrysanthemum ignited
the garden’s actuality
a well of gravity

birdsong harpooned the air

even her mother was …

Middle School

by Oak Morse

 

They’ve gotten my classes     crisscrossed

   sulking here     swallowing the wrong,

      compacted in       the regular classroom.

I belong

   in a seat that calls my name

           not here      in …

Knaackstraße 82, 1996 (Schicksalslied)

by Monika Cassel

       Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
             (Johannes Brahms, Deutsches Requiem/Psalm 84)

       I

Keusch bewahrt,/ In bescheidener Knospe: In downstairs Berlin bars she meets young men
while machines rip the city’s …

Cling

by Tobi Kassim

 

Just gravity pulling what free
bodies it touches down, and at times
their refusal. Despite this shaking over
the mouth of the trash, a plate
holding its residue. Adherence the …

After the Idea of the Flood Recedes

by Daisy Fried

 

with borrowings from Rimbaud, “Après le Déluge”

in a turbulent dream,
I wake troubled, confused,
a tabby nosing round the sheets…

the market stalls are dressed in meat,
bavetted, boned, …

Eros / ion

by Carolina Ebeid

 

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A Seat at the Table

by Kylie Gellatly

Disarticulated Map

by Rodney Gomez

Gauze Drill

by Katrina Roberts