Farid Matuk is the author of the poetry collections This Isa Nice Neighborhood (Letter Machine Editions, 2010), The Real Horse (University of Arizona Press, 2018), and the forthcoming Moon Mirrored Indivisible (University of Chicago Press, 2025). Their translations have appeared in Kadar Koli, Bombay Gin Literary Journal, Translation Review, Mandorla, Poetry, and Guernica. They have received fellowships from the Headlands Center for the Arts and United States Artists.
Poetry
Fall 2024
The sun parked in my space
The Kenyon Review · Tilsa Otta translated and read by Farid Matuk I held my breathto accomplish the great actof breathingfrom one end to the otherThe avenue was clearA blind […]
Poetry
Fall 2024
When you don’t believe in anything you’re left to
The Kenyon Review · Tilsa Otta translated and read by Farid Matuk Find the future in the part of heaven you can’t see. Dissection, break a heart to share it. […]
Poetry
Fall 2024
When they knock on my front door an engine switches on
The Kenyon Review · Tilsa Otta translated and read by Farid Matuk Suddenly everything seems to workI get moving, the lights change, the dust settlesSounds find a balanceA coalescence of […]