Confidence
“You’re so quiet!”
“Since when did you become so shy?”
“You need to speak up louder, please.”
These were the things she heard all day.
At school,
at home,
from her ...
Blooming Moons: 2 Poems by Ariti Gani
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Little Girl
Little girl smiling so bright her eyes shining and full of joy
The strangers who pass can see the gaps in her teeth,
As she laughs with her brother while their mother is buying groceries
Don’t ...
Blooming Moons: a Poem by Ayat Elbahlaoui
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Treehouse-dwellers
We are foreigners.
We live in these houses,
yet have no home.
In the same neighbourhood,
with little expectation of neighbourliness.
In this diverse city,
yet not ...
Blooming Moons: a Poem by Ariana Nazem
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A Helping Hand
Faith is always there
Rescuing me in lonely times
My one guiding light
Eid morning
Waking up on Eid morning
stays the same
There is the familiar wave of nostalgia
When ...
Blooming Moons: 2 Poems by Areej Arif
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Where the walls echo the laughter of the dinner table
Where the walls echo the laughter of the dinner table
Where the sun stains the counter, beming through the window
Where the floor imprints our every ...
Blooming Moons: 2 Poems by Aina Marzia
Blooming Moons
dream in which the world stays the same except for me
In the dream, I’m smaller, more tolerable. I’m better
at making flower crowns, my room is always clean,
and I can keep up with the rate ...
Blooming Moons: 2 Poems by Michelle Masood
Blooming Moons
I’ve been thinking about a question that a poet I love, Bhanu Kapil, poses in her hybrid poetry collection, The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers—How will we begin / How will we live now? In “Blooming ...
Blooming Moons Editor’s Note by Sarah Fathima Mohammed
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Rotura by José Angel Araguz Reviewed by Staci HaltPublished: March 2022Publisher: Black Lawrence PressLength: 70 pagesISBN: 978-1-62557-033-8Reviewed by: Staci Halt
Outcomes of Having-been-in-danger: José Angel ...
Rotura by José Angel Araguz Reviewed by Staci Halt
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About Cardiopatías
The poems in this manuscript are from Oriette D’Angelo’s collection Cardiopatías which I’ve been translating from the Spanish since 2018. The poems in Cardiopatías (Heart Diseases) were ...
Poems From the Collection “Cardiopatías” by Oriette D’Angelo Translated by Lupita Eyde-Tucker
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