Big thanks to Sarah Frances Moran, editor at Yellow Chair Review for publishing my poem “November 9, Kristallnacht” as part of their Election Aftermath series (November 13, 2016). It’s an awesome initiative to feature the poetic response to the US presidential election “for the foreseeable future” & I’m really honored to have my work included there.
Click here to read the poem : November 9, Kristallnacht
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I am grateful & honored to see my poem “Lorca’s body will never be found” featured today in I am not a silent poet, the most immediate poetry press in Europe (November 9, 2016). My heartfelt thanks to Reuben Woolley for running the piece on a day like today!
Click here to read the poem : Lorca’s body will never be found
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(Note: Originally entitled “play & theory of the drunken boat“, this poem first appeared in different version in Manneqüin.Haüs on May 17, 2016.)
I would like to truly thank Reuben Woolley, editor of I am not a silent poet for publishing a poem of mine, entitled “what good is Halloween to us” (November 4, 2016).
Click here to read this poem : what good Halloween is to us
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I am very honored & happy to have ten poems featured in a lovely anthology called Apple Fruits of an Old Oak. This collection edited by Soodabeh Saeidnia includes short poems, haiku & micropoetry of 31 international poets (mostly from North America, UK, Australia, Egypt, Iran, India, Bangladesh) & the work of 4 Canadian and Iranian photographers. My heartfelt thanks to Soodabeh Saeidnia for letting me be a part of this wonderful project.
You can pick up your copies at Amazon : Apple Fruits of an Old Oak
Below is the list of my poems included in the anthology :
Between root & wings
Lie
Happy birthday
I stayed with you when it was dark
On a hook
Scent of yesterday-today-tomorrow
Waiting town
A page turn
Frost in the eyes of a refugee woman
Orlando : Guns & roses
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Recently, to celebrate the International Day of Peace Praxis Magazine Online has published, in partnership with 100,000 Poets for Change, a collaborative poem comprised of more than 250 segments contributed by #poetsforpeace from around the world.
I am really honored and proud to have been a part of this collaborative anthology Peace Poem, 2016. I would like to thank Anita Lubesh for the heads-up. And my special thanks to the project curators M. Zane McClellan, Neha Dasgupta-Parmar, and Marie Lukasik Wallace for including my poem Nice, Bastille Day 2016 (pp.154-155). This amazing collaboration will be archived in the Stanford University Archive of the 100,000 Poets for Change collection!
Click here to download & read : Peace Poem, 2016
You can also read my poem on I am not a silent poet where it first appeared.
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Many thanks to Editor Katie Manning & everyone at Whale Road Review for choosing to nominate my work “Point of no return” for inclusion in this year’s Best of the Net Anthology ! I am deeply honored & feel so grateful!
You can read the piece here: Point of no return
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My new poem “That Watching is Harder than to Asphyxiate” appears in an exciting online anthology called Writers Against Prejudice (September 3, 2016). Many thanks to editor Marie Lightman for saying yes to this poem.
Click here to read the poem : That Watching is Harder than to Asphyxiate
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I am grateful & honored that the editors at Erbacce Press (Liverpool, UK) liked four of my poems from the Erbacce Poetry Contest 2016 enough to include in their latest issue (46). These poems, Daisy, On a hook, Song & the bottom of the root, & Telescope & night ornaments, had been longlisted for the contest. I was not aware they would be published in their print magazine. So when I received the magazine featuring my work alongside that of some fine poets from different corners of the world, I was really surprised & delighted. Thanks again Alan Corkish & Andrew Taylor.
Click here to read the poems : Daisy , On a Hook, Song & the bottom of the root, & Telescope & night ornaments
Note: Song & the bottom of the root was first published in The Curly Mind on January 23, 2016 & Telescope & night ornaments was first published in The New Verse News on March 26, 2016. And I have added here a more recent version of the piece Daisy.
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Interview with Maggie Mackay, an amazing Scottish poet!
I have an unapologetical love for political poems. And I always expect to find a creative distinction & intensity in those poems. I first read Maggie MacKay on IANASP : “I slave in his kitchens,/ my belly fired after him rape mi in the scullery/ like I was his peaberry fruit./ His boasts ride on fiddle jigs into the valley/ where my baby sleeps.” (Jamaican Macabre) I immediately liked her brutally honest voice & her clever way with words & sounds. At that point of time, I didn’t know the editor of IANASP would run a Poet’s Interview series & I would have the privilege & honor to ask her a few questions about her writing. And working on that project gave me the wonderful opportunity to discover more of her work. Maggie has published in various print and online publications, including
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Interview with Reuben Woolley by Antony Owen.
Thank you Reuben Woolley!
Hey Reuben, so tell me a little about IANASP and why people should read it?
I am not a silent poet started at the end of November 2014. I was at a point where I was getting very angry and depressed about the number of Facebook posts and Tweets about different kinds of abuse all over the world: gender abuse, domestic violence, child abuse, female genital mutilation, abuse of the disabled, the bombings in Gaza, Syria and many other places leading to the huge numbers of refugees trying to enter Europe with many drowning on the way in the Mediterranean, the mistreatment and killing of blacks in the USA, austerity imposed by the Conservative party in the UK and its terrible effects on the poorer members of society…
I felt it was time to do something, but this was rather frustrating because of my age and family situation, there is…
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