I am a god when I am asleep, I am found to be inside the shimmer of water as it fights against the brilliance of the screams that emanate from the sky

Martyrs and-slash-or heroes they call us Is it worth all the fuss? While they celebrate We ache to recuperate

The sun goes down every day when it’s meant to be

Kazi Nazrul Islam’s work remains just as relevant and beautiful 123 years after his birth.

It's time to take care of ourselves, both mind and soul, To live a life that is complete and whole.

The curtain rises, silence engulfs the theatre,

You stand where you always have

The blue model of clay vices that sits in a house of glass

She impales the bodies of chickens she prepares for a feast— My mother holds taut the fat clinging to the meat, By the sleight of her hand, separates it, And hurls it into the bin by the kitchen sink.

A dream of me in a sea of green.

I pen misery with dark black ink that I draw from a hole inside of my chest

The Mando, having more pressing matters To protect the kid, no bounty, no task ordained To him. He loves its cooing, its soft forehead, Appealing spell cast by the marveled eyes.

The Instagram account for Escapril posts all 30 prompts for the month ahead of time, and the poet is only required to write by taking inspiration from said prompts

An unwarranted guide, tormented pride, a sheep inside of a wolf’s hide.

Remembering Dutch Post-Impressionist painter Vincent Willem van Gogh on his 170th birth anniversary–March 30, 1853.

But in this lifetime, we'll never know what we could've become.

For hope is when I dream those dreams I dared not dream.

I used to wear my minutes as accessories and now the minutes wear me.

That evening, a blade sliced through string, through skin, red on red on red. Kutta, the man in khaki says. It is only later I realize it is me he is calling dog. Dog. Dog.

Using a Fulbright fellowship, Tarfia decided to come to Bangladesh to research the war and interview the women whom the Bangladesh government, in 1972, titled Birangona (war heroines). These interviews resulted in 'Seam' (Southern Illinois University Press, 2014).