"An Inventory of Infinite Traces" Gramsci
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Split this Rock Poem of the Week: Kandahar by Zohra Saed
Kandahar Behave or the sleeping Alexander will reclaim your lungs. Kandahar – Was once a cube of sugar Refusing to dissolve in the sea. It became a city from sheer stubbornness. Alexander naively said, “This is my land!” causing the earth to giggle and birth him a wife Rukhshana. (Roxanna if you prefer). […]
More“Misspelled Cities: Poems for Afghan Cities” notebook #105, documenta(13)
As a prelude to the 2012 exhibition, dOCUMENTA (13) and Hatje Cantz are publishing a series of notebooks, 100 Notes – 100 Thoughts, that is comprised of facsimiles of existing notebooks, commissioned essays, collaborations, and conversations. A note is a trace, a word, a drawing that all of a sudden becomes part of thinking, and is […]
MoreNadia Tueni: Fall 2012 Release from UpSet Press
This summer I’ve had the great luxury of time and the gift of an iPhone 4s. So, I’ve photo documented the process of copyediting the late Lebanese poet, Nadia Tueni’s (1935-1983) poetry collection: The Blond Texts + The Age of Embers translated from the French by Amir Parsa. The photos are from June-July 2012 and […]
MoreIPPY Awards: Silver Medal for Best Anthologies Section
On June 4th, 2012 Afifa Yusufi, Sahar Muradi and I accepted the Silver Medal for Best Anthology Award at the BEA Convention in NYC. The award ceremony was a spin off event and we were in the company of brilliant and adventurous writers. The award acknowledged ten years of work bringing this important anthology to […]
MoreSeven Leaves, One Autumn: Seven Contemporary Poets
I’m honored to be part of this wonderful anthology of international poets edited by Sukrita Paul Kumar and Savita Singh, published in New Delhi, India. Authors featured in this book: Julie Boden Clara Janes Kishwar Naheed Ute Margaret Saine Savita Singh Sukrita Paul Kumar
MoreSplit this Rock Poetry Festival, DC
Spent this past Friday and Saturday in DC at the Split this Rock Poetry Festival. I’m not sure if it was knowingly timed with the cherry blossom season in DC but it was a lovely surprise to find so much pink beauty in the streets (despite the later rain). I had the good fortune of […]
MoreInfinite Incompleteness (Among Afghans & Afghan Americans)
On November 8th, Wazhmah Osman and I were the two Afghans in the audience of this wonderful play: “Infinite Incompleteness” Hadi Marifat, writes, “The voices are now raised, but is anybody ready to listen?” in one of his papers on the Theater of Justice that his NGO The Afghanistan Human Rights and Democracy Organization (AHRDO) […]
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