Category: Poems

Pustinjska trska / Desert reed

POEM: Vesna Cvjetićanin charts the physical and emotional struggles she felt going into another wild Australian summer.

POEM: Asha Naznin describes the tastes, textures and sights that have meant home to her as she has travelled all over in search of her dream.

POEM: Verica Delova Srma describes the mixing of embers from her past and present that keeps a fire in her going wherever she is.

POEM: Agnieszka Berger ponders the transience of life’s interactions and the potency of recollecting them.

POEM: Jolly Bhattacharjee shares a poem that explores the changing roles in the parent-child relationship in places ‘in-between’.

POEM: Akka Ballenger Constantin brings us an English-Romanian poem in which she describes to her daughter the things she has never told her.

POEM: In his first English-language poem, Sanjaya Fernando describes how a smile can lead to lasting connections between culturally-different people.

POEM: Jasmine Soukieh discusses the cumulative effects of persistent othering.

POEM: Kaya Lattimore explores her bloodline in the stories of her ancestors, seeking out the breadth and depth of her history.

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