FOLIOS
Barbara Köhler’s Reimagined Odyssey
Selections from Monika Cassel and Christopher Nelson’s new translations of Niemands Frau (No One’s Woman)—Köhler’s 2007 wild and surprising Odyssey told from the perspective of the female characters.
Kõra Rumiko and the Labor of Poetry
Japanese poet and translator Miharu Yano presents selections from the first-ever translation of the post-war poet’s 1962 collection, 場所 (Place). Here, Yano explains why she chose the title, Site, as she explores Kõra’s deep relationship to objects and work.
Sao Xia: A Poet Who Embraces Joy
Sao Xia, whose name (骚夏) means an unrest summer, has never shied away from writing about lesbian desires. Here are selections from her second collection, Endangered Animals, offered in both English and Chinese.
DISPATCHES
Art Monster
Queer ekphrastic poetry—indelible, fierce
Linda Gregerson and the Poem as an Instrument for Inquiry
Blas Falconer talks to the poet about the limits of language, writing in a world marked by suffering, and more.
Finding Cole Swensen
Alexis David talks to the poet about humans as part of nature, the problem with metaphors, and more.
A Waka
translated by Naoko Fujimoto
Café Jelinek
translated by David Keplinger
Ghazal of Residue
translated by David Keplinger
I’m Washing Your Underwear
translated by Daniel Owen
Birth of a Dog
translated by Daniel Owen
Green on Blue
translated by Alejandra Quintana Arocho
Life Drive
translated by Alejandra Quintana Arocho
Today I Could Not
translated by Alejandra Quintana Arocho
Gerardo Diego’s Handbook of Foams
translated by Francisco Aragón | reviewed by Alexandra Lytton Regalado
of Women: 20 Japanese Female Poets / 20 Waka Poems
translations by Naoko Fujimoto | reviewed by Matthew Thorburn
Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger’s Song of the Yellow Asters
translated by Carlie Hoffman | reviewed by Jenny Grassl