Poetry

Langston Hughes in Turkestan at The Smithsonian

Zohra Saed Projects by Zohra SaedJune 20, 2016June 15, 2021

Broadside: Herat

Zohra Saed Projects by Zohra SaedMay 1, 2014April 12, 2018

Binding the Woman to her Navel on WBAI Radio: Asia Pacific Forum

Poetry by Zohra SaedApril 1, 2014June 21, 2016

Literature by Zohra SaedAugust 3, 2012August 4, 2014

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). […]

Zohra Saed Projects by Zohra SaedApril 9, 2009December 10, 2024

High School Zohra: The Recession Now and the Recession Then

This is my favorite. It’s a flashback to the recession of the early 1990s, my sophomore year at Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn. Goth music, dark matte lipstick, and scrunchies ruled supreme. My name was spelled differently (before I reclaimed the name I was born with and not the name the translators misspelled on […]