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In this short and sharp poem, writer and filmmaker Carol Sansour pays homage to Palestinian political prisoners.

I consider a poet’s job to consist of three things: writing about the society, the time, and the country.

María José Giménez is a Venezuelan-Canadian poet, translator, and editor working in English, Spanish, and French.

Some 56 nations from around the world will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa next month.

The Maung Shwe Lay Navy Base is the first major Myanmar Navy facility to fall to resistance forces.

An essay by Hu Shu-wen on the cruel fate of many political prisoners during Taiwan's era of White Terror (trilingual)

"One shouldn’t sleep at dawn / As a ground squirrel in its hole. / One should be a red-haired devil / Crawling / Along the night streets of Kazan..."

Mara Pastor is a Puerto Rican poet, editor, and translator.

Translated, from the Turkish, by Jeffrey Kahrs and Mete Özel

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I found a language by scraping my skin a bitter tree grew out of it prepared, steamed, speeding I crushed that language I pulled it and … Read More »

A contributor to our Dissent issue, Akleen is a poet and translator from Gaza, Palestine. She started writing at the age of ten, and at the age of fifteen, she won the Barjeel Poetry Prize for her poem ‘It Wasn’t Me Who Stole the Cloud’, which was published in the Beirut-based magazine Rusted Radishes and later included in the Italian anthology Of Water and Time.

José Eugenio Sánchez (Guadalajara, México, 1965) is the author of jack boner & the rebellion (Almadia, 2014), suite prelude: a/h1n1 (Toad Press, 2011), Galaxy limited café (Almadia, 2011), escenas sagradas del oriente (Almadía, 2009), la felicidad es una pistola caliente (Colección Visor de Poesía, España, 2004), and physical graffiti (Colección Visor de Poesía, España, 1998).

On September 1, 2024, two teenage boys, aged 15 and 16, from Zokhawthar village in Mizoram, were abducted by the Chin Defense Force (CDF) in Myanmar.