Excerpts from “Don’t Say My Son Is Walking in Heaven” – Islam Nawwar, trans. Phoebe Bay Carter
1 I was in my bedroom when I heard the muezzin call: “Praaaaaayer is better than sleep / praaaaayer ...
1 I was in my bedroom when I heard the muezzin call: “Praaaaaayer is better than sleep / praaaaayer ...
1 I'm just a girl from Tripoli Naive and sometimes wicked I let half of my friends burn in my ...
Near the window a sparrow is startled By its reflection or this man? ...
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Fisherman “I’m an amateur,” he said. “I write, rewrite, then night comes ’round, I stand, turn on the light, ...
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"I dream of a world where chickens can cross the road without having to be questioned." IBRAHIM “SOULÓ” BALUNYWA Chapter ...
I come from a family of 10 children. My father is a teacher. It's a lineage that has followed us. ...
Sometimes when Jane and I are waking up together, as I lie there snuggling up to her warm body, still ...
English YOU WON’T FIND ANYTHING STRANGE I did not settle down with any fixed bed other than a dream. ...
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for Teresa Baburam 1 Wide open spaces stun me. i was born, tight as a knot ...
Her grandfather would never go back there. He distrusted the place. ‘The people smile all the time,’ he used to ...
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There certainly exist vast studies and scientific research that shed light on the laughter of a child. Even writers ...
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3 SEPTEMBER 2020 – DEADLINE FOR RUCKSACK – GLOBAL POETRY PATCHWORK PROJECT Rucksack, at Global Poetry Patchwork is an...
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