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Faraj Bayrakdar (b. 1951) is a renowned Syrian poet. He had been imprisoned by the Assad regime for almost fourteen years. Late Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury (1948-2024) took a key role in a campaign to free the poet.

The Buzuruna Juzuruna agroecology association travels around Lebanon in September to screen documentaries that poetically demonstrate the need for the Lebanese to preserve their environment.

This paper deals with the poetic debate engaged in by professional Palestinian poet-singers, primarily at traditional Palestinian weddings in the Galilee region.

Joaquín Pasos (1914-1947) was born in Granada, Nicaragua, studied law at the University of Managua, and was part of the Nicaraguan Movimiento de Vanguardia. He wrote plays, poems, and essays, and was occasionally incarcerated for his involvement in satirical work mocking the Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza García.

The ongoing discourse surrounding the repatriation of Naga ancestral human remains from the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford, UK, has sparked critical reflections among the Naga community.

BAOBAB FRUIT PICKING (OR DEVELOPMENT IN MONKEY BAY) (for Mary and David Kerr)

'We've fought before, but this is worse than rape!' In the semi-Sahara October haze, the raw jokes

Of Balamanja women are remarkable. The vision We revel in has sent their husbands to the mines

Of Jo'burg, to buy us large farms, she insists. But here, the wives survive by their wits & sweat:

Shoving dead cassava stalks into rocks, catching Fish in tired chitenje cloths with kids, picking

Baobab fruit & whoring. The bark from the baobab They strip into strings for their reed wattle,

The fruit they crack, scoop out the white, mix with Goat milk, 'there's porridge for today, children!'

The shell is drinking gourd or firewood split (They used to grate the hard cores into girls'

Initiation oil once). 'But you imported the Boers, Who visited our Chief at dawn, promising boreholes!'

These pine cottages on the beach shot up instead, some With barbed wire fences fifty yards into the lake!

(What cheek!) Now each week-end, the 'blighted-tomato- thighs in reeking loin-cloths' come, boating, grinning

At them baobab fruit picking. 'My house was right Here!' Whoever dares check these Balamanja dreamers?

source: https://ro.uow.edu.au/kunapipi/vol8/iss1/11/

biobibliographical note: jack mapanje is a renowned poet from malawi

Juana Borrero was born in Havana in 1877 and died in Key West in 1896 at the age of nineteen. She was born into a family of intellectuals: her father and all her siblings wrote verses which were later compiled and published under the title Versos familiares.

In this short and sharp poem, writer and filmmaker Carol Sansour pays homage to Palestinian political prisoners.

I consider a poet’s job to consist of three things: writing about the society, the time, and the country.

María José Giménez is a Venezuelan-Canadian poet, translator, and editor working in English, Spanish, and French.

Some 56 nations from around the world will attend the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Samoa next month.

The Maung Shwe Lay Navy Base is the first major Myanmar Navy facility to fall to resistance forces.