Issue 2 Table of Contents Titles with the country flag of the poet link to sample poems.  Letter from the editors

For the marionettes six poems Response from ("The meaningless underside of bridges") from ("The meaningless underside of lakes")

Caridad Atencio / Holly Iglesias	(Spanish)
from La sucesión

Víctor Rodríguez Núñez / Margaret Randall	(Spanish)
A Poem with Tiger

Soleida Ríos / Judith Kerman	(Spanish)
A Puff of Wind Travels Beyond the Hearth

SNancy Morejón / David Frye	(Spanish)
And the Flags Will Burn

Juan Carlos Flores /Kristin Dykstra	(Spanish)
*For the marionettes the grasshopper

Forugh Farrokhzad / Farnoosh Fathi	(Persian)
from Rebirth

Forugh Farrokhzad / Sholeh Wolpé	(Persian)
Wind-Up Doll

Saadi / Richard Jeffrey Newman	(Persian)
The Manner of Kings: Story 2

Abbas Saffari / Niloufar Talebi	(Persian)
Saturday Night Dinner Tomorrow

Firdausi / Deborah Meadows	(Persian)
Zahak the Dragon King

Abbas Kiarostami / Farnoosh Fathi	(Persian)
*six poems

Kristina Lugn / Philippe Aronson	(Swedish)
I Am a Fun-Loving Lady

Amelia Rosselli / Jennifer Scappettone	(Italian)
("For the singings that unwound...") ("Sex violent like an object...") ("Your watercolors discomposed my") *Response

Laurynas Katkus / Kerry Shawn Keys	(Lithuanian)
Keys October Holidays

Meta Kušar / Ana Jelnikar & Stephen Watts	(Slovenian)
from Llubljana

Carlos Edmundo de Ory / Steven J. Stewart	(Spanish)
This Has No Title

Xin Qiji / Michael Farman	(Chinese)
Springtime in the Qin Garden Water Dragon Song Magnolia Blossoms

Dunya Mikhail / Elizabeth Ann Winslow	(Arabic)
The Cup The Theory of Absence

Berl Pomerantz / Sean Singer	(Hebrew)
Orange Rind A Late Summer Sun

Chus Pato / Erín Moure	(Galician)
("you can't see the battle...") ("my heart's rhythm is so fast astral...")

Dieter M. Gräf / Andrew Shields	(German)
Orange— Non-Place

Martial / George Held	(Latin)
I.23 V.83

Omar Cáceres / Mónica de la Torre	(Spanish)
Opposite Anchors

Remi Bouthonnier / Laura Mullen	(French)
from The Groaning

Aase Berg / Johannes Göransson	(Swedish)
from ("Cut the keel") from ("In the shell ...") *from(“The meaningless underside of bridges”) *from(“The meaningless underside of lakes”) from Narwhal from Blubber Biter

Nichita Stbnescu / JoAnne Growney & Gabriel Prajitura	(Romanian)
from A lecture on the cube from A lecture on the circle

Venantius Fortunatus / James DenBoer & Maria denBoer	(Latin)
from 18. Black Plums

Raymond Queneau / Daniela Hurezanu & Stephen Kessler	(French)
from Seahorses

Manoel Ricardo de Lima / A.S. Bessa	(Portuguese)
from One

Luvsandorjiin Ulziitogs / Katherine Ives	(Mongolian)
from A Poem That Was Born When . . .

Li Ye / Jeanne Larsen	(Chinese)
from On My Sickbed by the Lake, Happy . . .

Yowshan Annagurban/ Ian Bronstein	(Turkmen)
from ("No matter how you clothe . . .") from ("The sun once rose . . .")

Šejla Šehabovic / Damir Arsenijevic & Terence McEneny	(Bosnian)
from Non-Violent Communication

Sandra Moussempès / Carolyn Shread	(French)
from Incantations (7) Madeline 1212

Carsten Rene Nielsen / David Keplinger & Carsten Rene Nielsen	(Danish)
Riddle The Ear

Shang Qin / Steve Bradbury	(Chinese)
The Speed of Sound

Osip Mandelstam / Seth Zimmerman	(Russian)
Do not compare

Kim Hye-sun / Don Mee Choi	(Korean)
Mommy Must Be a Fountain of Feathers I'll Call Those Things My Cats

Nicanor Parra / Liz Werner	(Spanish)
Exchanges Apropos of Nothing

Vénus Khoury-Ghata / Marilyn Hacker	(French)
The Cherry Tree's Journey

Homophonic Section

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