To the Beloved Moon

By Nu Yin ● 2025

For our lives
placed within
boundaries of darkness ,
She is …… a beacon.

Accustomed

By K.T.M (Mimi Oo) ● 2025

Came back home in the dark one night
Parked the car and sat still
KS 95 playing an Ed Shearan song
embraced the little cocoon I was in

In Gaza / בעזה

By William Nour ● 2025

בעזה
אנו מאמינים שהעולם כדורי
עד מגיעים אל הקצה.

Baye [or Baay]

By Oumar Dieng ● 2025

Sama baay demna
Demna ag pussiéru Sahra-bi
Ci kaw géej bu réy bi

Global Poetry Celebration 2025

2025

On June 18th from 7-9pm, we gathered for our 5th Annual Global Poetry Celebration to hear poetry read out loud in many languages.

Solitude

By Mugu Ganesan ● 2025

Tanha dil pyaasa hai phir se shayad yeh sham dhalne ko hai Saje mehfil mein mai ki dariyaa behene ko hai!

Since the beginning

By Mugu Ganesan ● 2025

Ek baat keh ni thi aap se shuru se
Aap acche lagte hain mujhe shuru se!

An international student, detained by ICE in Minneapolis, buys lilies for Easter brunch

By Sook Jin Ong 翁淑君 ● 2025

I want to walk to the grocery store, the one that gives me that big box experience, to pick out lilies, berries, and hot cross buns. April is approaching, and

My Mother Smoking a Cigar

By Loren Niemi ● 2025

It was on her 80th birthday That I offered and she accepted A Cuban. Her first. Her last. It was Mother’s Day And I had come to plant flowers To

Fighting B(l)ack Pain

By Davida Kilgore ● 2025

no gain no pain in the ass fast forward 2 inflammation swelling inflammatory response telling the body you hurt real bad pain prowls sidelines lounging hard words scrounging up adjectives

How the Body Wears Its Sorrows

By Joshua Preston ● 2025

limbs like vines reach for sky but find only themselves to climb the arms make a ring the legs step through & twisting bending writhing a man ties himself into

Upon learning that an angler fish is small enough to fit in the palm of your hand,

By Kait Quinn ● 2025

I finger the hard knob, now slightly larger than a pea, beneath the flesh of my right forearm, which the doctor told me was nothing to worry over, but now