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• Issue 3

  Summer 2006
• "With Liberty and Justice: A few remarks about translation" by David R. Slavitt
• Two Odes of Oedipus Tyrannos. Translated by David R. Slavitt

• Issue 4

  Fall 2006
• From Book III of De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus by David R. Slavitt

• Issue 5

  Winter 2007
• Crossing Over (To The Afterlife) by Vincent Katz

• Issue 6

  Spring 2007
• Day of the Dead by Rosa Alice Branco. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• Savings Bank by Rosa Alice Branco. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• More is Less by Rosa Alice Branco. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• Two Words for the Night by Rosa Alice Branco. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• From Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius. Translated by David R. Slavitt

• Issue 7

  Summer 2007
• From Canto Quinto of Ludovico Ariosto’s by Orlando Furioso. Translated by David R. Slavitt

• Issue 8

  Fall 2007
• A List of Things to Do and in the Absence of Water by Luljeta Lleshanaku. Translated by Shpresa Qatipi & Henry Israeli
• Dialogue and The Mare Danube by Ioan Flora. Translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Alina Cârâc
• Letters and Bees by Ion Pop. Translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Ioana Ieronim

• Issue 9

  Winter 2007
• The Last Supper Cathedral of Cusco. Translated Lynn Levin
• Five Poems. Translated by Alexis Levitin and Fernando Iturburu
• The Battle of Maldon. Translated by David R. Slavitt

• Issue 10

  Spring 2008
• Translations from The Greek Anthology by David R. Slavitt
• a passing glimpse of the first of may, storypoem by Hipolito Alvarado. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• Chronicle , Autumn Story , Possibilities for Paintings and Renaissance by Jürgen Becker. Translated by Okla Elliott
• The Ancient Circle by Fernando Cazón Vera. Translated by Alexis Levitin and Fernando Iturburu
• Play of Shadows by Maritza Cino. Translated by Alexis Levitin and Fernando Iturburu
• And I Had Lost Granada by Carlos Eduardo Jaramillo. Translated by Alexis Levitin and Fernando Iturburu
• The Words by Edwin Madrid. Translated by Alexis Levitin and Fernando Iturburu
• Brief Remarks on Love by Sonia Manzano. Translated by Alexis Levitin and Fernando Iturburu
• “To Fight Life-Long to Be Essential” (Bertolt Brecht) by Hernan Zúñiga. Translated by Alexis Levitin and Fernando Iturburu

• Issue 11

  Summer 2008
• Frosting by Rhina P. Espaillat
• On the Street and One Day You Will by Gagan Gill. Translated by Arlene Zide and the Poet
• Pietà by Gabriela Melinescu. Translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Inger Johansson
• I Don’t Write Because Others Wrote Before Me by Ana Minga. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• Tobacco Dogs IV by Ana Minga. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• Box of Souvenirs by Carolina Patiño. Translated by Alexis Levitin

• Issue 12

  Fall 2008
• Scenario with Feet Sticking Out by Rosa Alice Branco. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• among the keys by Mariana Dan. Translated from the Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and the poet
• Selected Poems From Pythagoras in Love by Lee Slonimsky. Translations into French by Elizabeth J. Coleman , and Edited by Sonja Haussman-Smith
• The Road to Ujjaini by Shrikant Verma. Translation from Hindi by Gagan Gill and Arlene Zide
• Watch by Archana Verma. Translation from Hindi by Aruna Sitesh and Arlene Zide
• Under the Sycamores by Zeineb Yassin. Translation by Charles Cantalupo and Dessale Berekhet

• Issue 13

  Winter 2009
• Reesom Haile, Four poems. Translated by Charles Cantalupo
• So you will not say that I am difficult by Maritza Cino. Translated from the Spanish by Alexis Levitin
• Sonia Manzano, “License of a Doe,” “Farewell legitimate son of an unknown god”. Translated from the Spanish by Alexis Levitin
• The Barmaid by Virgil. Translated from the Latin by David R. Slavitt
• Rajee Seth, Mughal Garden and The Sky Said. Translated from the Hindi by Arlene Zide and the Poet
• Rajee Seth, Just You Watch Out. Translated from the Hindi by Aruna Sitesh and Arlene Zide with the consultation of the Poet

• Issue 14

  Spring 2009
• Consecrating the Alphabet by Leonor Scliar Cabral. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• Boccaccio's Eclogue Part VII  "THE QUARREL". Translated by David R. Slavitt

• Issue 15

  Summer 2009
• Fountain by Astrid Cabral. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• A Canzone From Dante's La Vita Nuova. Translated by David R. Slavitt

• Issue 16

  Fall 2009
• Tulips and Origami Tiger by Salgado Maranhão. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• XXVIII The Yaksha. Translation by David R. Slavitt

• Issue 17

  Winter 2010
• Erlking, a Poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Translation by Okla Elliott
• To Each His Own and Sub specie aeternitatis by Rosa Alice Branco. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• The Fauré Requiem by Gastão Cruz. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• Five Poems by Belli. Translated by Charles Martin

• Issue 18

  Spring 2010
• Hands in the Grave XXX and XXXI by Santiago Vizcaíno. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• Your work by Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. Translated by Jacqueline Michaud
• To My Father by John Milton. Translated from Latin by David R. Slavitt

• Issue 19

  Summer 2010
• Ronsard: “Quand Vous Serez Bien Vieille, Au Soir, a La Chandelle...” a translation By Jack Foley
• Untitled by Carmen Váscones. Translated by Alexis Levitin

• Issue 20

  Fall 2010
• A Watermill Beneath the Bed and Only the Cats by Rosa Alice Branco. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• Excessive Song V by Dan Sociu. Translated from Romanian by Adam J. Sorkin and the poet with Mihaela Ni’ă

• Issue 21

  Winter 2011
• Three Translations by Rhina P. Espaillat
• Sea Drift by Salgado Maranhão. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• He Who Has Lost All by David Diop. Translated by Jacqueline Michaud
• Canzone of Guido Cavalcanti. Translated by David R. Slavitt

• Issue 22

  Spring 2011
• Three Translations by Rhina P. Espaillat
• Hokusai and the Great Wave by Astrid Cabral. Translated by Alexis Levitin

• Issue 23

  Spring 2012
• On Public Transport by Gastão Cruz. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• Lithuanian Cemeteries by Gastão Cruz. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• Song of the Sirens by Kostas Kartelias. Translated by Gail Holst-Warhaft
• Circe by Kostas Kartelias. Translated by Gail Holst-Warhaft
• Penelope's Song by Kostas Kartelias. Translated by Gail Holst-Warhaft

• Issue 24

  Summer 2012
• The Death of Angels by Rosa Alice Branco. Translated by Alexis Levitin
• IV Bisclavret by Marie de France. Translated by David R. Slavitt

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