Category: Poetry

Poetry
Passageways to God by Gyula Jenei

Religious attitudes, architecture, and adventure combine in a boy’s life, in a poem by the Hungarian poet Gyula Jenei, translated by Diana Senechal.

Poetry
Litterfall by Gyula Jenei

A boy walks alone through the changing layers of leaves, in a poem by the Hungarian poet Gyula Jenei, translated by Diana Senechal.

Poetry
Slap by Gyula Jenei

A child gets a life (or non-life) lesson, in a poem by the Hungarian poet Gyula Jenei, translated by Diana Senechal.

Poetry
The Legend of Lobo by Gyula Jenei

A boy is terrified by a wolf bursting out of a movie, in a poem by the Hungarian poet Gyula Jenei, translated by Diana Senechal.

Poetry
Smartphone on the Sunday Table… by Michal Habaj

A poem by Slovak poet Michal Habaj, in John Minahane’s translation.

Poetry
the ventriloquists by Gábor Gyukics

Gábor Gyukics’s poem about the obliviousness of the privileged peoples of the world to the world around them.

Poetry
shindig by Gábor Gyukics

Gábor Gyukics’s poem about the role of racism in police violence.

Poetry
Two in the midst by Mila Haugová

Poem by Mila Haugova which touch on exclusion, compassion, the passing of time, and the consequences of the suspension of life because of Corona virus.

Poetry
If we indeed have souls by Zsuzsa Takács

In this poem by Hungarian Zsuzsa Takács, translated by poet George Szirtes, Eastern European trauma transforms into the spectacle of disaster tourism.