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Two Poems: “Creep” and “I Don’t Know What Is Mine”

By Vanessa Martinez Rivero | April 30, 2026

Silence!

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Dream Mode

By Yenick M. Gonzalez | April 30, 2026

I need to be set ablaze.

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Poems by Osama Esber

By Osama Esber | April 26, 2026

There Was No City & A Prayer to an Unknown God

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Two Poems: “Approaching Liberty” and “Talking to Bertolt Brecht”

By Jeff Aron | April 23, 2026

She took the inscription literally.

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Sleeping Pills

By Suzanne Ali | April 23, 2026

I seriously thought of moving my death
to another country.

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Two Poems: “The Broken of the World” and “Linguistics for the Fallen”

By Virginia Leyva | April 20, 2026

You’ve all lost so much as well.

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Two Poems: “The Sun Card” and “One step at a time”

By Gray Torres | April 20, 2026

I get high in my room with God.

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Two Poems: “Ode to Laryngitis” and “Upon the Head of a Goat”

By Laura Tanenbaum | April 16, 2026

A single, ocean-deep breath.

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Two Poems: “Abuela” and “Yeya”

By Jacqueline Acosta | April 9, 2026

YouTube has become her favorite pastime, a source of memory where she gets transported to those very mountains she once climbed

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Here, There & An Invitation

By Catherine Theis | April 5, 2026

Poems by Catherine Theis

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Poems by Sohrab Sepehri

By Rebecca Stengel | April 2, 2026

I became a shadow and cried out:
Where the boundaries of flight, of sight?

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The Urgent Tenderness of Our Collective Living

By Jennifer MacKenzie | April 2, 2026

An introduction to Poetry Month 2026.

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The Purest Expression of Faith

By Tom Maxwell | February 4, 2026

What’s happening in Minneapolis is the direct action of Selma at the scale of the Sanctuary Movement.

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A Missed Goodbye, or Perhaps Not

By Swasti Bhattacharyya | December 23, 2025

We waited as long as we could, but you did not come.

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Join KtB & CrossCurrents in Boston Sun., 6:30pm!

By KtBniks | November 20, 2025

Sunday, 6:30-7:30 at AAR Boston! Join us!

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Celebrate 25 Years of KtB, Sat. Oct. 18th in NYC!

By KtBniks | September 29, 2025

This year is the 25th birthday of KtB, our silver anniversary if you will, and we need your help to celebrate! Please join us for PROOF OF LIFE: CELEBRATING 25…

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A Fraying Standoff

By Jennifer MacKenzie | August 4, 2025

Governance and survival in post-Assad Syria

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A Berlin Mosque’s Fight for LGBTQ+ Acceptance and Safety 

By Elissa Mardiney and Angie Pulmano | July 6, 2025

Following the release of the book Liebe Ist Halal, contributors host a panel discussion about how queer Muslims can find a safe space.