Category: Poems

Uspomene / Успомене / Memories

POEM: Vesna Cvjeticanin shares with us her award-winning poem, “Uspomene”, reflecting on the way memories can be fickle despite our best efforts.

POEM: Amala Jayasekara imagines the impact of migration on a child, through the eyes and mind of her daughter.

POEM: Ray Mardia explores the transience of difference.

POEM: Abeir Soukieh brings us a poem of youth and difference and survival, and her little cousin Rim.

POEM: Jasmine Soukieh shares a poem touching on the mix of thoughts, feelings and assumptions involved in less-familiar language settings.

REFLECTION / POEM: Akka Ballenger Constantin reflects on the experience of “sitting” simultaneously between and within cultures.

POEM: Kaya Lattimore wrangles with the turbulent complexity of the question “where are you from?”.

POEM: Ray Mardia reflects on memories stored unconsciously and the power they have to bring comfort in difficult moments.

POEM: Vesna Cvjetićanin describes the elusiveness of locating and choosing between her two personal histories.

POEM: Bojana Kos describes the difficulty of belonging to a “stranded” diaspora.