POEM: Amala Jayasekara imagines the impact of migration on a child, through the eyes and mind of her daughter.
Category: Poems
Where are you from?
POEM: Ray Mardia explores the transience of difference.
Don’t we eat the antelope?
POEM: Abeir Soukieh brings us a poem of youth and difference and survival, and her little cousin Rim.
A tongue (un)tied
POEM: Jasmine Soukieh shares a poem touching on the mix of thoughts, feelings and assumptions involved in less-familiar language settings.
The Fence Sitter
REFLECTION / POEM: Akka Ballenger Constantin reflects on the experience of “sitting” simultaneously between and within cultures.
Origin Story
POEM: Kaya Lattimore wrangles with the turbulent complexity of the question “where are you from?”.
Solace
POEM: Ray Mardia reflects on memories stored unconsciously and the power they have to bring comfort in difficult moments.
Na raskrsnici svetova / На раскрсници светова / At the crossroads of two worlds
POEM: Vesna Cvjetićanin describes the elusiveness of locating and choosing between her two personal histories.
Claim me, home
POEM: Bojana Kos describes the difficulty of belonging to a “stranded” diaspora.
