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A crop of the Stop Executions Poster depicting two hanging outlines over the words No more executions...

Poster designed by Iman Nabavi

Mornings of Hell in Iran

Every night I wake up several times. I have nightmares of executions.

Translated from Persian by Poupeh Missaghi

Four girls with their backs turned to the camera holding up their headscarves with their hair down

Photo via social media

I Am a Witness

For a while now, I’ve stopped pulling up my scarf to cover my hair when I pass by the guards.

Translated from Persian by Poupeh Missaghi

The Great Lord Pabori

“I am the Great Lord Pabori, who eats the roast of seven lions!”

Translated from Sindhi by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

The Stork and the She-Stork

“I was a fool. I will die and you will live. Return to our young now!”

Translated from Sindhi by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

The Two Sparrows

The cat said, “If I fetch him from down here, what will you give me?”

Translated from Sindhi by Musharraf Ali Farooqi

I Found a White Bean

I found a white bean: where did I plant it?

Translated from Latvian by Bitite Vinklers

I Had a Brindled Cow

What became of the brindled cow? I traded her for money.

Translated from Latvian by Bitite Vinklers

Opening Poem of the Cantares Mexicanos

Earl Shorris and Sylvia Sasson Shorris prosent a new translation of this Classical Náhuatl poem from the sixteenth century.

Translated from Spanish by Earl Shorris & Sylvia Sasson Shorris