Poetry

Peace Ogunjemilua brings forth two poems that—according to the young Nigerian poet and graphic artist—“revisit the childhood lessons” from “an African home, where the voice of a child grows” to acquire “the wisdom of an adult.” The first poem, “Biomimicry” draws from the bond of human experience wit

Dr. Deeba Shireen presents a poem about a loss that is unlike any other. Deeba’s verses explore the notion of oneness that is implicit in the bond between a mother and a child during pregnancy and after birth. Written from a place of profound and unquantifiable loss, the poem delves into a difficult

Passing through this Kashmiri “Age of Big Construction”, Mubashir Karim’s poem takes us back to the shared experience of those who know what it is to ride on a bus or a matador. Seated in the present, these verses－and the poetic voice that shapes them－adopt the gaze of a passenger-flâneur who moves

Mirum Quazi presents a poem about the experience of losing a grandparent, one that is grounded in the feeling of being uprooted and suspended within a space drawn between memory and its recollection. These verses dare to explore and confront the exact moment of such a loss. In doing so, the poem gro

Carol Blaizy D’Souza presents two poems that explore structure, spatiality and the enunciating subject intertwined within the former. Such verses trace the lines where the soul wanders within a human gaze, be it one affixed on oneself or one’s surroundings, and in both poems succeed in capturing mov

Juliana Ariela Sejas presents a poem that ventures into dreamlike landscapes led from the quotidian by memory and sensation, thought and emotion. Among other things, the poem arrives at a visceral understanding of what is to be, to exist and to read, to create, to dream and then to write and make ar