Read "Cycle" by John Yau, the prolific and accomplished poet, art critic, and curator who has published over 50 books of poetry, fiction, and art criticism.

Read six transcreations from Chinese to English by Joshua Ip, a Singaporean poet, editor and literary organiser. Ip has published six-ish poetry collections, edited eleven anthologies, and co-founded Sing Lit Station. His latest book, translations to the tanglish (Math Paper Press, 2021) gathers contemporary and anachronistic translations of classical Tang/Song Dynasty poetry.

Sarah Arvio is the author of night thoughts: 70 dream poems & notes from an analysis, Sono Cantos, and Visits from the Seventh. Her most recent work is a translation of poems and a play by Federico Garćia Lorca, Poet in Spain.

Read "Supernatural Bread," a powerful poem from Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gregory Pardlo’s 2024 collection Spectral Evidence, which into themes of devotion, beauty, art, and the criminalization of Black bodies, reflecting on justice and how these issues are woven into our present, our history, and the Western canon.

Writer and musician AM Ringwalt reviews Jesse Nathan’s debut poetry collection Eggooth (2023), describing how Nathan wields refrain as a structural and sonic device as well as an urgent means of reconciling with family history, geographic place, and past and present selves.

Scholar and translator Joanna Krenz reviews Singaporean poet Daryl Lim Wei Jie’s poetry collection Anything But Human (2021).