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Longing

photo of Lake Lemuria

Photo by Alex P on Pexels.

Queer Shores of Ukraine

By Alex Averbuch

in the evening you looked through the photos / that I collected in empty homes

Translated from Ukrainian by Oksana Maksymchuk, Max Rosochinsky & Alex Averbuch

Multilingual

Illustration of golden crescent moon and stars on a blue but cloudy night

See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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By Nasser Rabah

They leave without turning the moon of longing off behind them . . .

Translated from Arabic by Emna Zghal, Khaled al-Hilli & Ammiel Alcalay

Multilingual

A close-up of a vinyl record player

Photo by Adrian Korte on Unsplash

Unfasten the Silk of Your Silence

By Souad Labbize

I buttress arches / curved in the style of Nubian vaults

Translated from French by Susanna Lang

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A herd of reindeer attached to a sled at sunset

Photo by Hans-Jurgen Mager on Unsplash

Polar Fire

By Moa Backe Åstot

Are there homosexual reindeer herders?

Translated from Swedish by B. J. Woodstein

Writing Against Estrangement in Galicia

By Scott Shanahan

No doubt a few Galicians will think it in very bad taste to inaugurate this issue with a likeness to their higher profile southern neighbors, but because there may be a great many glad for the comparison,…

And They Say

By Susana Sanches Arins

i come from a family built on longing.

Translated from Galician by Kathleen March

This, I Don’t Know

By Samuel Solleiro

These are the years directly preceding the onset of vulnerability.

Translated from Galician by Neil Anderson

Here in Chorrillos

By Doris Moromisato

My eyes fill with rowboats

Translated from Spanish by Margaret Wright

Multilingual

Peripatetics: The Essays of Jazmina Barrera, Karen Villeda, and Mariana Oliver

By Charlotte Whittle

These are essays with a roving gaze whose authors travel through geographic and intellectual spaces with the same ease with which we used to walk around in New York.

Özdamar’s Tongue

By Mariana Oliver

Özdamar knew that arriving in a country with no return ticket meant voluntarily surrendering to an indeterminate foreignness.

Translated from Spanish by Julia Sanches

Visegrád

By Karen Villeda

Women were confined to reading prayer books and religious hymns. And they wrote in the margins. Centuries went by. Those marginalia are, in fact, the books I need to read.

Translated from Spanish by Charlotte Whittle

Yaquina Head

By Jazmina Barrera

Robert Louis Stevenson says that to tour lighthouses is “to visit past centuries.”

Translated from Spanish by Christina MacSweeney

An illustration of a girl in a red and white tutu standing on the back of a white horse in front...

Popular Graphic Arts, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Tante Rosa, Would-be Horse Acrobat

By Sevgi Soysal

Rosa would no longer be falling off of horses. Instead, she would bag the manure of the circus animals and sell it to villagers.

Translated from Turkish by Amy Spangler

A couple at the tomb of the poet Hafez.

By Adam Jones. License: CC BY 2.0.

The Fish

By Ahmad Shamlou

I think my heart has never been / like this / so warm and red.

Translated from Persian by Zara Houshmand

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