With the very first poem, “Alive,” Shidmehr captured my enchanted attention.The enchantment occurs in dark ambiguity between redemption and curse, annihilation and healing, courage and...
Echoes of history in my ears fill time-lapses The screaming chimes of ringing collapses, Forgotten crimes of dark apocalypses I can see all when time...
The strained breast of the ugliest witch Vomits the dirtiest teeth with laughter And we, the naïve people With One thousand four hundred years Behind...
I wrote this letter to President Obama following the ground invasion of Gaza by Israelis in January 2009 and the massacre that followed. The invasion...
