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A conversation between two people in a taxi — the driver had fought a war in the country of the passenger. Should they keep talking?

A poet finds solace in a church where the empty space of a building helps her recognize the empty space she’s feeling.

A poem that’s a song of praise, lament, and petition: praise for the sea’s animals, lament at their exploitation, and petition for forgiveness and change.

Is a person who returns to a place of exile a foreigner? Or a local? Or something in between? A poem about an encounter between two Armenian women.

Some friends smoke at a street corner of a city, wondering about their futures;, but wondering, too, about who they are.

Two brothers, with overlapping prayer mats in a small shared room, try to suppress their laughter while reciting prayers; their prayer is their joy.

A poem that at once queries the Flower Wars toward the end of the Aztec era, and also queries wars today: Who are they for?

Using the form of sestina — coming from the Italian for “six” — Elizabeth Bishop reflects on her complicated childhood using six repeated words.

A gay club becomes a place of sanctuary for people seeking rhythm and safety. Away from a world of threat, the club is an experience of what could be.

Looking at a worm, much is learned: how to ingest, how to open up, how to make space, how to survive, how to get through.