There is a kind of natural unraveling in Kiriti Sengupta’s poetry that, while complex, feels as effortless as the silence after separation:…

Patricio Ferrari and Nikola Madžirov. Photo by Peng Yu. On April 17, 2025, I spoke with poet Nikola Madžirov at the New York Public Library’s…

I met Mahreen Sohail eight years ago when we shared a Tudor-style cottage at Yaddo, the artist residency in Saratoga Springs. When I asked her…

Mirza Alakbar Sabir and the first issue of Molla Nasreddin / Photo courtesy of Wikipedia The satirist and poet Mirza Alakbar Sabir (…

Pioneer Summer, also referred to in English as “Summer in a Pioneer Necktie,” is a queer romance written in Russian in 2016 by Ukrainian…