​We’re entering an age when more people than ever become victims of forced displacement. We must expand our circle of empathy and develop a deeper sense of trust – without which there will be no shared reality. Art is the universal thread that weaves together a patchwork of voices beyond time and borders. If the world’s a house, art is the force that keeps it from collapsing on itself.

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Exilé Sans Frontières talks to Kristina Andersson Bicher about poetry, translating Marie Lundquist, and how her own writing comes to life.

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Three    By    Kellam    Ayres

Why hadn’t I noticed it before, / the protrusion below his shoulder? / My fingers press into the nub, / move up and down over the raised bone,  / my palm grazing the spot above his heart ...

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Three    By    Jacqueline    Kolosov

white as the tundra / swan magnificent—​ / into un- tethered sky / we plunge / tempestuous visions / fledge into birds ...

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Doubling    Back,    Pippa    Goldschmidt

A ferry travelling across the North Sea must take account of the tides, the twice-a-day ebbing and flowing of the sea that is caused by the Moon’s orbit around the Earth ...

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Homeric    Hymn    to    Helios,    Fortunato    Salazar    (transl.)

a green fish in a green sea / a green fish in the shape / of a rhombus .inconspicuous ...

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Broken    Words,    Barrett    Ahn

Shakes hand shakes head / long journey before words out of mouth / (use hands and eyes to convey meaning / wave around / gesture frantically / be emphatic on the tones I know) ...

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The    Inside    Twitch,    Robert    Okaji

Of leaving: nothing ever lasts / but odd habits and those rancid / bits of love’s lonely power grid / held hostage ...

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A    Poem    By    Fernando    Pessoa

Everything’s as sharp as a sunflower in my eyes. / I’m used to walking the roads / Looking left and right / And sometimes looking back ...

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Focus    On    Sacha    Rusanu    Carden

The Atlanta Journal speaks of Sacha Carden as an artist whose journey from East to West is reflected in her "use of bold colors, large canvas, and free line and form ..."

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So    I    Am    Little,    Hasham    Khalid

And madness is like a discus / bolting and tearing the space with burgeoning circumference ...

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Four    By    Daniel    Nemo

Let us rest a little. / There is much to take in here. After a long process of disintegration, / rootedness ...

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​the    autobiography    between    us,    Arielle    Burgdorf    (transl.)

​shadows tell tales / to the moon glow / slow merge ...

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New    Rilke    Translations

How the law of gravity / strong as an ocean current / brings to bay each ball and berry ...

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Forest    Hanging    From    Inflection    Point

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