Samovar - Poetry

Poetry

I Said | मैंने कहा

By: Sourav Roy
Translated by: Carol D'Souza

22 Jul 2024

I said sky/ and with a stainless-steel plate covered/ the rotis going stale

Poetry

मैंने कहा | I Said

By: Sourav Roy

22 Jul 2024

मैंने कहा आकाश/ और स्टेनलेस स्टील की थाली से ढक दिया/ बासी पड़ रही रोटियों को

Poetry

La Chemise de Kevlar | The Kevlar Shirt

By: Linda Maria Baros

22 Apr 2024

Tu enfiles longuement la chemise des murs,/ tout comme d’autres le font avec la chemise de la mort.

Poetry

The Kevlar Shirt | La Chemise de Kevlar

By: Linda Maria Baros
Translated by: Kathryn Kimball

22 Apr 2024

For a long time now you’ve put on the shirt of the walls,/just as others might put on a shroud.

Poetry

Le premier pas | The First Step

By: Guy Goffette

22 Jan 2024

C’est le premier pas dans la lumière qui coûte/ et savoir que tout a déjà commencé sans toi :

Poetry

The First Step | Le premier pas

By: Guy Goffette
Translated by: Kathryn Kimball

22 Jan 2024

That first step into the light will cost you—/ finding out the show started without you:

Poetry

naming the child | ìsọmọlórúkọ

By: Waheed S. Olamilekan
Translated by: Sodïq Oyèkànmí

23 Oct 2023

to name a child, you consider the ancestral–lineage

Poetry

ìsọmọlórúkọ | naming the child

By: Waheed S. Olamilekan

23 Oct 2023

wọ́n ní ilé làá wò ká tóo s’ọmọ lórúkọ

Poetry

1610 - Ο CESARE CREMONINI ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΤΗΛΕΣΚΟΠΙΟ | 1610 - Cesare Cremonini and the telescope

By: Anna Griva

26 Jun 2023

Κοιτούσε τον ουρανό/ κι ήταν βέβαιος/ ότι είχε δίκιο ο Σταγειρίτης

Poetry

1610 - Cesare Cremonini and the telescope | 1610 - Ο CESARE CREMONINI ΚΑΙ ΤΟ ΤΗΛΕΣΚΟΠΙΟ

By: Anna Griva
Translated by: Erofili Papadogia

26 Jun 2023

He gazed up at the sky/ and was certain/ that the Stagirian/ was correct