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EMILY OSBORNE | Unsurprisingly, manuscript traditions reveal that scribes were often stumped by the kennings they recorded or copied, and Hallfreðr’s seven-part kenning for Oláfr is no exception.

ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Language is in mortal peril, and we need to do something about it. The current trajectory of AI, left unchecked, will globalize the strongest weapon of colonialism...

BORIS DRALYUK | My goal was to meet the text whole, to find a fitting tone of voice, to make up for inevitable losses with gains available only in English.

KELLY M.S. SWOPE | The task for the poet of hard times is to look into the deepest part of the night without recoiling at what he sees...

SOPHUS HELLE | For the past four years, two tracks have run through my life. One is Gilgamesh

ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI & OCEAN VUONG | Poet and essayist Ocean Vuong is the author of Night Sky with Exit Wounds

SAMUEL LONCAR | We live everyday on the brink of the abyss. Artists feel this. They smell darkness, inhale light.

DAVID BIALE | Heinrich Heine was the first Jew to become a cultural icon in Germany...

ABDUL MANAN BHAT | Poetry gatherings have a magic of nearness, an immediacy and intimacy of sorts...

AMIT MAJMUDAR | Consider Punch. He wears jester’s red and carries a stick the size of his body, a stick he uses to hit everyone...

PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA | In the ancient world, rigid divisions between healers, poets, and spiritual leaders did not exist as they do today...

ALEXANDRA BARYLSKI | Her poetry often renders the familiar close to the strange and places the domestic beside the wild...