Here below are links to four poems. Each was written in a language spoken by people Mr Trump wants to ban from the United States of America. Please read them. The non-English original texts all have good English translations alongside. Farsi Ebrahimi Persian Khoi Arabic Monzer Masri (Syrian) Somali Samadoon The poems come from a project I run called Poems… continue reading
Sad Songs of the Brain
Three of them. I haven’t yet found a way of actually displaying them as a post here, though it’s easily done on Facebook. But this link takes you to a pdf version : Sad Songs of the Brain Why the paltry brain, the paltry individual ? Why “in here” where the brain is ? Why not “out there” where all… continue reading