Karma — A Poem by Maknoon Wani
Will the bullets whisper the names of those donning wool cloaks?
Poetry
Portrait of Me as a Ghost – Three Poems by Edward Elizabeth
All the way from Benin City, Edward Elizabeth brings us three poems that reflect pain and perseverance through the depths of an anguish past yet fresh in the mind and latent in the soul. A young poet engaging with essential questions of life and death, destruction and creation, survival and healing,
Madhosh Balhami: The Poet of Perseverance (Documentary Series) — by Irfan Dar and Gowhar Farooq
On 15 March 2018, Madhosh Balhami lost his house and thirty years of written poetry to a fire in the middle of a gun battle between Indian soldiers and rebels. Producers and directors Irfan Dar and Gowhar Farooq have come up with a short documentary series on Kashmiri poetry titled "Madhosh Balhami:
An Unconventional Poem for Easter or Quite Simply a Masterclass on How to Recite Poetry
We present a poem that versifies the struggle and rise of those confined to death, disregard and abandonment while striving to survive. The poem as a song of individual and female resilience for the ages is presented here to commemorate the rise of a brown Middle Eastern man and his enduring legacy
I write dissent, they read hatred — by Bupinder Singh
Educator and poet Bupinder SIngh presents a timely poem on dissent and resistance and how these are misrepresented such that “If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing” (as Malcolm X once famously
My Body is a Nation — Three Poems by Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan
Medical-student-by-day and poet-and-writer-by-night Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan presents three poems that rise from the embodied soul and meditate on existence in verses that ride on simplicity yet convey the greater cultural complexity of the young Nigerian poet’s musings.
The Sky of My Memories is Overcast — Two Poems by Syed Rabia Bukhari
Syed Rabia Bukhari presents two of her poems that dig deep into vast human preoccupations such as memory, forgetfulness, loss and grief, with all of these congealing into a trace of the human experience that reflects perseverance in life and in living. What it means to be alive and more importantly