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RACHEL HADAS | What about love as a balm for existential dread?

JANE ZWART | Sometimes I find myself almost unable to write poems because I’m not in the right rooms in my mind. . .

MICHAEL BAZZETT | Translating the poetry of K’iche’ Maya poet Humberto Ak’abal can sometimes feel like trying to grab a beam of sunlight.

LUKE FISCHER | Novalis was polymathic in his range of interests and abilities: a poet, philosopher, scientist, mystic, director of salt mines . . .

VICTORIA MOUL | Sanskrit lyric is particularly rich in erotic verse, which is divided into many different types and typical scenarios: there is no real parallel for this in any Western literary tradition.

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.