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Poetry
2011: A Year of Collaborations & Community Building
Writers 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 […]
MoreFrom Zine to Indie Press: How Many Books Can a Ripe Guava SPAWN?
I’m packing up these beauties to take over to the Brooklyn College Library Zine Collections Archive. Earlier this week Alycia Sellie from the library contacted Robert Booras and I about submitting our zines. Although, at first I thought I had lost my old zines in my move — I was ecstatic after finding this humble […]
MoreA Kavad for Remembering 9/11: Together We Are New York
A Kavad for Remembering 9/11: Together We Are New York “The sense of urgency to write often comes from a place of necessity – to discover truth, to challenge the simplification of stories.” (Hossannah Asuncion) The 10th anniversary of 9/11 will bring an outpouring of emotions and remembrances: this project ensures, through community interviews by […]
MoreNew Series of Poems: Family Album
Medina Mosque is mother too, beneath her arch is Zohra, age four, eyes darkened with Kohl, named after a star and existing as one of the ivory columns. Grandfather leans against the pale blue Honda, Lifts me to the sky, Reach! Reach! I am his telephone line to God. (copyright Zohra Saed)
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