Celebrate Activist Poetry -- At Nov. 1 Event
BE THERE on November 1, 2013 at the Goethe-Intitut in Washington DC when poet and journalist Eliza Griswold is honored with the Split this Rock Freedom Plow Award (register here for this important event) for Poetry and Activism for her work collecting and introducing the folk poems of Afghan women to America. The June issue of Poetry Magazine is entirely dedicated to landays -- two-line poems by Afghan women that capture dark, funny, and revealing moments that few outsiders ever witness. (Edited and introduced by Griswold, the poems are magnificently supplemented by photographs by Seamus Murphy.)
Here are three landays from Griswold's Poetry collection, each selected for inclusion here because it includes at least one number:
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