Inventing the Past: A Conversation
Suddenly, one day, I felt a certain pleasure, and this pleasure was greater than the sorrow of the therapeutic writing that I was doing. Suddenly I recovered my sense… More
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It’s #WorldPoetryDay. Who are you reading?
Annual World Poetry Day is celebrated today. Share Galal's new poem 'In My Silence Is My Death' written in Badr Prison:
https://ramyessam.com/post/new-poem-by-galal-el-behairy-in-my-silence-is-my-death
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For #WorldPoetryDay, listen to “Spring Will Come” by Taciana Niadbaj of @pen_belarus in Belarusian with English subtitles. Poet Armen Ohanyan of #PENArmenia reads Niadbaj’s poem in Armenian.