Satya Dash’s poem is a cinematic tour through a memories filled with “unexpected pleasure.” The speaker, who is gripping in their directness, cites the metaphysical and then proceeds to locate this sense of intimacy in a catalogue of everyday occurrences:…
We’re so excited to share this poem by Javier Sandoval, the 2022 Global Poetry Prize winner for the region of North America. About Javier’s poem, the judge J. P. Dancing Bear writes, “This poem captures a lot of different themes…
We’re so excited to share this poem by Carlos A. Pittella, the 2022 Global Poetry Prize winner for the region of Europe. About Carlos’s poem, the judge Aria Aber writes, “The winning poem, “The death of Jean Charles de Menezes”…
“After Fire” holds a quiet grief: a scene so carefully observed and distilled that it feels like a held breath, each line asking us to live inside it. The repetition of sorrow, its insistence on expansion, settles in the air…
We’re so excited to share this poem by Abigail Mengesha, the 2022 Global Poetry Prize winner for the region of Africa. About Abigail’s poem, the judge Saddiq Dzukogi writes, “‘Map’ is a striking poem that presents a poignant and thought-provoking…
We’re so excited to share this poem by Iqra Khan, the 2022 Global Poetry Prize winner for the region of South Asia. About Iqra’s poem, the judge Tarfia Faizullah writes, “This poem astonishes in how its rigor of structure conjoins…
Electric, “Quilox” is bent to the confines of its form just as this moment is bent to the confines of the night, the poem’s abrupt enjambments a reminder that day will interrupt the charged “light of the dark/-ness.” This is…
This poem’s vision, or aspiration, is one of abundance, basking in the speaker’s “own plenty.” Alexa Patrick’s poem sings, and in its singing creates a world so vivid we can touch it, so vivid that we, like this speaker’s hopes…
Congratulations to the winners of our inaugural Global Poetry Prize, and thank you to everyone who submitted! We’re delighted to announce that the recipients of our $1000 prizes are Iqra Khan, Abigail Mengesha, Carlos A. Pittella, and Javier Sandoval. We’re…
Like the snake that appears in its second line, Arman Avasia’s sonnet is a transformation through intimacy. Visceral with desire that is amplified in the animal imagery scattered throughout, the reader is brought into the “urgent” and left in the…
