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“To…Ma Ma Nu Gyi,” an elegiac anti-war poem, has highlighted a divide among opponents of military rule.

The small Caribbean island is struggling to deal with environmental and economic damage from algae inundation

Masters of Wabi snow light in her hospice room stillness Chen-ou Liu eviction notice…...

For nearly a decade, the Danish government sought to control Greenland’s population by implanting IUD devices in Inuit girls, often without their consent.

Marie-Ange Jolicoeur (1947-1976) died at the age of 29 in Lille, France, having already authored four volumes of poetry, Guitare de vers (1967), Violon d’espoir (1970), Oiseaux de mémoire (1972), and Transparence en bleu d’oubli (published posthumously in 1979). According to Saint-John Kauss in La poésie féminine haïtienne, “She was, to the best of our knowledge, after Queen Anacaona, the second ‘cursed’ poetess in Haitian literary history.”

Imphal: Tensions escalated in Manipur’s Imphal on Tuesday as clashes broke out between students and security forces during a protest, despite a curfew

A fleeting dream, moving like a train, is on my tail

As the conflict spreads to the Bamar heartland, there are growing reports of abuses and internecine fighting among resistance groups.

These poems are excerpted from Feisal G. Mohamed’s work in progress Nowhere is Safe in Gaza, a book-length erasure of South Africa’s December 2023 application to the International Court of Justice charging Israel with violations of the Genocide Convention.

Love’s Portrait

The love inside me is a white wave; with the foam of anger it crashes violently against my soul, leaving traces there.

It never leaves me alone, knocking loudly in every hour of the night, it shakes me with its tender arms, it wakes me up, giving me emotion.

source: https://ourpoetryarchive.blogspot.com/2024/09/ildije-xhemali.html date of original publication: unknown translated by irma kurti biobibliographical note: ildije xhemali (b. 1952) is a renowned poet from albania

A prose poem by Nosirova Gavhar (Uzbekistan)

A Poem by Aída Párraga (El Salvador)