Tweet Exiles of Eden, Poems steeped in the Somali tradition refract the streets of Ferguson, the halls of Guantánamo, and the fields near Abu Ghraib through the myth of Adam and Eve to ask: What does it mean to be a refugee? Gallery [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”42″ gal_title=”Ladan Osman”]
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BelAhdan, My conversation with Poet Richard Brodrick, Jesus of Walmart
How Women and Poetry Saved Somalia, A conversation with Somali Poet Asma Farah,
Tweet “What makes poetry such a pervasive force in Somali society? To the Somalis the question is not so difficult to answer: poetry is the medium whereby an individual or a group can present a case most persuasively…For unlike Western poetry, which appears to be primarily the concern of a group of professionals dealing…