"An Inventory of Infinite Traces" Gramsci
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 […]
MoreWriters are for the most part lone wolfs, notorious for hibernating in order to release the “jinns” inside them via writing. However, this year, I found myself more than ever involved in collaborations that expanded my community of Asian American and Central Asian American authors, performers and intellectuals. Since I was bedazzled by the Hipstamatic […]
MoreOn 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) […]
MoreHipstamatic photos from my iPhone in homage of autumn, my favorite month in NYC:
MoreThanks to David Henderson and Chris Brandt for a lovely and meaningful event on a warm Sunday afternoon in October for the Howl Festival: The lovely poet, Sara Goudarzi. Everyone came out with these fantastic glowing faces as if illuminated features were quite average things for poets and musicians these days. Poet and actress, Sahar […]
MorePoets for Renewable Energy and Peace (PREP) at Howl Festival (NYC) When: Sunday, October 23 Time: 1-4pm Where: Theater 80 on 80 St. Marks Place (East 8th St. & 1st Avenue) in Manhattan. Who: Sahar Muradi, Zohra Saed, Anne Waldman, The Mast (featuring Haale Gafori and Matt Kilmer), Sara Goudarzi, Bob Rosenthal, Papoleto Melendez, Yusuf […]
MoreThere is so much to say about the event on Oct. 7th — a reunion of artist friends, a meeting of new friends, and a commemoration. Yellow candles lit the Mandragoras Gallery where Afghan Americans and an Afghan Brit came together to share the process of art-making and self-making during these years of war in […]
MoreLast week, poet David Meltzer and his wife Julie came to visit. What’s cooler than a poet visiting to talk about the “Beat” movement in American poetry? Coming in a shirt that says “DownBeat”! I’ve been reading Beat Thing and will post up some audio clips from the talk (depending on how fancy I can […]
MoreYes, you are seeing right! Kohl pencil and a pen shared the panel table with Fawzia Afzal Khan (author, Lahore With Love: Growing Up with Girlfriends, Pakistani Style), Priyanka Motaparthy (Human Rights Watch), Purvi Shah (Moderator/author, Terrain Tracks) and me. Beauty and Power all on one table. (We didn’t know whose kohl pencil that was […]
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