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Not My Language
Not My Language

by Galina Rymbu
Translated from Ukrainian by Dmytro Kyyan and Kate Tsurkan

It hid in the corners of my eyes.
It dimly gleamed on my eyelashes.
Unfathomable as that first love.
Dark as the bruises from your first school fight.

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‘Poets and pornographers’ and other poems
‘Poets and pornographers’ and other poems

by Alex Leigh Farber

The poets and the pornographers 
meet in the same place 
every night— 
after the city has emptied out.  

Neither tourists nor police 
can tell them apart.  

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‘If the Queen Shows up in a Double Rainbow’ and ‘Teardrop Pearls’
‘If the Queen Shows up in a Double Rainbow’ and ‘Teardrop Pearls’

by Mitzi Dorton

Signs
After death,
Wouldn’t they come
From a mother, too,
Who bangs on the glass
At the emergency room,
The desk ladies talking,
Lost in their own family sagas

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War Cake
War Cake

by Charlotte M. Porter

Enduring bloodshed, recipes, women’s spoils,
make do w/ shortages, rations & absence
of manna, milk & honey, miracle loaves—
foody promises made real in War Cake,
a city confection for cooks w/out chickens,
an eggless feat, almost fat-free w/ raisins,
minus milk, to fete a special occasion 
as soldiers die on someone else’s T.V.

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What Tricks the Mind
What Tricks the Mind

by Rita Taryan

The comeliest woman in the village is the one with the roundest face and rosiest lips. The most eligible bachelor in the village is the one who writes the most heartfelt poetry about his mother. The great Hungarian poet, Attila József (working-class, schizophrenic, a suicide at the age of thirty-two) wrote, “For a week now, all I think about is Mama; When I stop, I start again.”

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‘A word fallen out of language’ and other poems
‘A word fallen out of language’ and other poems

by Milena Findeis

In the mouth, the word
to taste
to chew

It hums in the ears
is rolled by the eyes
cut apart by grimaces

Spread with hashtags
processed in the news stream
until it ends, checked off,
in the cache

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What will people say?
What will people say?

by Mire Marke

She tells me not to sit on the cold stone slab in front of the fireplace. It will ruin your womb, she says. You need your womb. I tell her I don’t want children anyway. Flames burst from her mouth in the shape of what will people say?

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‘The Mother’ and other poems
‘The Mother’ and other poems

by Ema Dumitriu

In fleeing me, my wrath,
my fear
a female rat is giving birth
on the hot sidewalk,
steadily,
trailing behind a streak of blood
with child

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The Ones Who Survive Are Real — a Review of Bora Chung’s ‘Red Sword’
The Ones Who Survive Are Real — a Review of Bora Chung’s ‘Red Sword’

Reviewed by Kate Tsurkan

Bora Chung’s “Red Sword” wastes no time plunging readers into an alien world that is both cruel and enticing, immediately challenging humanity to find a way to reclaim itself. We are first introduced to the narrator — a woman who remains nameless for most of the novel — as she recounts her budding intimacy with a lover aboard a slave ship traversing the far reaches of a galactic empire, only to witness his death shortly after they are cast onto what is dubbed the white planet. What starts as a flicker of dread from her lover’s untimely death swiftly grows into an unrelenting tension that saturates the novel from start to finish.

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When the Air Held Its Breath — on the Poetic Record of War in Oksana Maksymchuk’s ‘Still City’
When the Air Held Its Breath — on the Poetic Record of War in Oksana Maksymchuk’s ‘Still City’

Reviewed by Anya Avrutsky

Written in the few months leading up to and following Russia’s full-scale invasion, the book bridges a documentary and surrealist style, capturing a city on the brink. Maksymchuk, a Ukrainian poet and translator from Lviv, began writing Still City six months before February 24th, from a building overlooking an old prison courtyard where political prisoners had been executed during WWII. Such a setting serves as a reminder of how little time has passed since the last war that ravaged Ukraine.

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