Farah Fawzi Ali 8/2/21 Farah Fawzi Ali 8/2/21

A Transitory World

Filipina-Egyptian writer Farah Fawzi Ali’s formally experimental poem weaves through Arabic, Tagalog and English, road signs, pop songs, text messages and winding thoughts

Andrea Salerno Jácome 7/8/21 Andrea Salerno Jácome 7/8/21

Al Satwa

Venezuelan photographer Andrea Salerno Jácome shares a photo essay on the Satwa neighborhood in her current base Dubai, accompanied with both Spanish and English versions of a reflection on being a migrant in this ‘temporary city’

Mel Adún 6/20/21 Mel Adún 6/20/21

two thousand and twenty

Originally in Brazilian Portuguese, with an English translation by Sarah Rebecca Kersley, Black feminist poet Mel Adún reflects on the day-to-day griefs of the pandemic in this haunting lyric

Mai Santillan 3/8/21 Mai Santillan 3/8/21

Kamoté

A bilingual poem by Phillipines based poet Mai Santillan, exploring the importance and history of language, family, and kamoté (sweet potato)