table of contents

Spring 2026 issue

table of contents

Editor's Note

by Carine Medellus; Daria Knurenko

Sisters – Heavy and Tender... [Сёстры – тяжесть и нежность...]

written by Osip Mandelstam
translated from Russian by Valentin Yemelin

I Became Devoted To You [Mubtalo bo’ldum sanga]

written by Alisher Navoi
translated from Uzbek by Manzura Ravshanbekovna Abdirimova

To Our Youth [A tutti i giovani raccomando]

written by Alda Merini
translated from Italian by Gabriele Costarella

To Have a Mother [مادر داشتن]

written by Fereydoon Moshiri
translated from Farsi by Mahsa Nikomanesh

To Maigul [Майгүлге]

written by Mukagali Makatayev
translated from Kazakh by Zarina Nurakhunova

Ghazal 317 [غزل شماره ۳۱۷]

written by Khajeh Shams od Din Moḥammad Ḥafeẓ e Shirazi
translated from Farsi by Elnaz Zandian

Sonnet 24 [Sonetto 24]

written by Gaspara Stampa
translated from Italian by Giulia Drago

Four Stanzas of New Shijing on the Moon Palace [月宫新詩經四章]

written by Shi Yan
translated from Chinese by Eric Wang

What I Threw Wide Open Once, Still Has Not Closed [我曾今敞开的,还没有关闭]

written by Yu XiuHua
translated from Chinese by Michelle Zhang

5. Lyrical Chimera [5. Лірична химера]

written by Attila Mohylyny
translated from Ukrainian by Daria Knurenko

Turned Yellow [Сарғайдым ]

written by Magzhan Zhumabayev
translated from Kazakh by Fariza Saidybek

October Sun [Sole d'ottobre]

written by Ada Negri
translated from Italian by Manuel Rumiano

Without Meeting: A Musing

by Mariam ElNaggar

On Grammar [Gramatyka]

written by Zuzanna Ginczanka
translated from Polish by Ruby Fredericks-Grzyb

The Arghavan Tree [درخت ارغوان]

written by Amir Houshang Ebtehaj
translated from Farsi by Elahe Eizadi

Seven Crimean Tatar Food Riddles [Yedi qırımtatar aş tapmacası]

written by Anonymous
translated from Crimean Tatar by Denis Ferhatović

A Divine Miracle [Een godswonder]

written by Bart Chabot
translated from Dutch by Arno Bohlmeijer

A Shop That Sells Peace [शान्ति की दुकान]

written by Kunwar Narain
translated from Hindi by Apollo Constantine

We Are All Okay [سلام!]

written by Seyed Ali Salehi
translated from Farsi by Sogand Shenavar

Pharsalia. 7.617-637. [Pharsalia. 7.617-637.]

written by Lucan
translated from Latin by Nell Gardiner

Catullus 101 [Catullus 101]

written by Catullus
translated from Latin by Jax Gottschalch