After the Bombing
After the BombingThe buildings collapsed like a house of cards.The cards were not in the residents’ favor.The favoring of damage over precision was the rule of the day.The precise number …
Lisa Suhair Majaj
Lisa Suhair Majaj is the author of Geographies of Light (2008 Del Sol Press Poetry Prize), of poems and essays published across the US, Europe, and the Middle East, and of two children's books. She is also co-editor of four collections of critical essays, including the forthcoming Companion to Contemporary Arab American Literature (Routledge). Her poems have been translated into ten languages, and were displayed in the 2016 exhibition Aftermath: The Fallout of War—America and the Middle East (Harn Museum of Art). Her new poetry volume Why Doesn’t the Sky Love Us? is forthcoming. She lives in Cyprus.
After the Bombing
After the BombingThe buildings collapsed like a house of cards.The cards were not in the residents’ favor.The favoring of damage over precision was the rule of the day.The precise number …
WHAT THE LIVING DO WHEN CEASEFIRE IS ANNOUNCED
The living weep at the news, first with relief, then with despair as the bombs keep falling. They promise the newest dead to stay alive long enough to pull their …
Voices
by Lisa Suhair Majaj 1.the night was brittle with cold bed shaking legs shaking brain shaking I screamed in terror voice shuddering into fragments a weight pressed my chest my …
Conversation – A Poem
What did you do while the children of Gazawere dying? I argued with their killers. What did you say? I said that the innocent deserve innocence.That the sound of laughter …