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Bodies

Photo by Cihan Yüce on Pexels.

The sea and the here and

By Kyongmi Park

In Kyongmi Park’s dreamlike narrative poem, the sea and the body shape each other in mysterious ways and raise questions about community and selfhood.

Translated from Japanese by Rina Kikuchi & Jen Crawford

Multilingual

a group of windows with

Photo by Aitziber Ruiz de Eguino on Unsplash.

Gynecological Ultrasound Report

Poet Lu Ye takes us through a gynecological report rewritten in lyric prose.

Translated from Chinese by M Lin

Photo by Loc Dang on Pexels.

God’s Child

by next spring / he’ll be a god’s child

Translated from Japanese by Rina Kikuchi & Jen Crawford

Multilingual

A robotic hand emerges from the bottom of the image against a blue background.

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A Small Extinction: Part 2

“Even if there isn’t anyone next to me, there will always be people inside my head.”

Translated from Korean by Anton Hur

A black-and-white photo of a transparent mannequin.

Photo by Tara Winstead on Pexels..

A Small Extinction: Part 1

“But it makes no sense to become a robot so you can be a better parent! What is the child going to learn from a machine mother?”

Translated from Korean by Anton Hur

yellow smoke curling against a black background

Photo by Олег Жилко on Unsplash

kretek-ing

By Zahid M. Naser

bloodrush like the swell of desire in a room / surging higher and higher to my eyes, craving life

Translated from Malay by Pauline Fan

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By Lauri García Dueñas

to the rain looming over mexico city open your jaws for us make kids laugh dogs bark

Translated from Spanish by Olivia Lott

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Life Is a Pose

By Julio Villanueva Chang

In his spare time, he wears clothes.

Translated from Spanish by Nicolás Medina Mora

Urdu Feminist Writing: New Approaches

By Asad Alvi, Amna Chaudhry, Mehak Faisal Khan, Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Geeta Patel & Haider Shahbaz

A dispiriting narrowness has defined canons of Urdu feminist writing from previous decades.

A photo of a hand behind a translucent bronze linen curtain.

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Enemy

By Khalida Hussain

It’s an act of virtue to kill her!

Translated from Urdu by Haider Shahbaz

Behind Closed Doors: Outing the New Chilean Narrative

By Lina Meruane

Contrary to the epic, totalizing, and politically engaged narratives of the Latin American Boom, the scope of the stories here is narrow, intimate, more local than ever before.

Chilean Electric

By Nona Fernández

Nobody couldn’t have a belly button.

Translated from Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

My Tongue Falls out of My Mouth

By Miroslav Kirin

my tongue falls out of my mouth

Translated from Croatian by the author

That Woman

By Rodolfo Walsh

I buried her standing, like Facundo, because she had balls!

Translated from Spanish by Cindy Schuster