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Homelands

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“This, Here, Is Home”: Shalim M. Hussain on Miyah Poetry from Assam

By Uttaran Das Gupta

Poet and translator Shalim M. Hussain discusses Again I Hear These Waters , a new anthology that collects and celebrates poetry from the riverbanks and islands of the Brahmaputra.

A picture of three military helicopters flying.

Picture by Elen Schurova, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

i had a country once

By Chantal T. Spitz

In this searing short fiction, Mā’ohi writer Chantal T. Spitz denounces the colonial impulses driving seasteading proposals in the Pacific.

Translated from French by Jean Anderson

A blurred picture of a person walking in a street at night.

Art by David Hammons. Courtesy of Harvard University Art Museums. Public domain.

Black and Blue

In two contrasting quartets of poems, New Caledonian poet Paul Wamo reflects on his otherness in France and his deep connection with the natural world of his native Lifou.

Translated from French by Jean Anderson

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Image of a coiled brown boa constrictor

Photo by Jan Kopřiva on Unsplash

Between Sky & Earth

By Olivia Elias

if we collected all the tears / would it wash away the soot / resurrect the dead.

Translated from French by Jérémy Victor Robert

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Image of dried mud

Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash

“Pull Yourself Together” and “Seven Skies for the Homeland”

By Hiba Abu Nada

In our books, hunger and bread are synonyms, / light and darkness all broken shards.

Translated from Arabic by Huda Fakhreddine

Multilingual

Black and white photograph of Sámi people traveling with reindeer

Swedish National Heritage Board, No restrictions, via Wikimedia Commons

The Deportation of the Northern Sámi

By Elin Anna Labba

The children ask where they are going. They, too, have begun to grasp that they are not heading home.

Translated from Swedish by Fiona Graham

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Murashko olga, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

About Time to Smile at Homeless People

By Dinara Rasuleva

Dinara Rasuleva questions received notions of home and national identity in this poem about her relationship to Russia.

Translated from Russian by Hilah Kohen

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Is This Home?

By Zakaria Mohammad

For the Israelis, these hours were needed so that each and every returnee would understand the truth they wanted understood: you are coming to place yourself under our heel.

Translated from Arabic by Michael K. Scott

Damascus, What Are You Doing to Me?

By Nizar Qabbani

How do the gardens of Sham transform me?

Translated from Arabic by Shareah Taleghani