“Forty Names” is a poem about making sense of the tragic and unfair events unfolding in the lives of Afghan women. It challenges our sense of myth and folklore by clawing at the realities of the present. I wrote the poem to honour Afghan women by granting them the poetic space to rise again in colourful dresses, carry their lanterns, lead their way, and sing their names aloud.
Parwana Fayyaz on "Forty Names" |
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"Adrian Matejka Joins Poetry Magazine as New Editor"
“I couldn't be more humbled or excited to be the new editor of Poetry. The 19-year-old version of me, thumbing through the magazine’s pages with wonder, would have never imagined that he would one day be part of such a vital literary institution....I am committed to reimagining Poetry not only as a venue for poetics, but more importantly, as one that is in service of poets and treats writers as the gifts that they are.”
via POETRY FOUNDATION |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Rocío Cerón (Mexico City) on Ecopoetry Now
"Language and nature are an ancient binomial that has reinforced the physicality between the world we inhabit and how we inhabit naming it. The power of the bird is not only its chirp and trill, but the richness of its name which alters our lips in pronouncing it: albatross, kestrel, blackbird, screech owl, flycatcher, vireo, thrush, golden tanager." |
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