Alana Marie Levinson-LaBrosse is a poet, translator, and assistant professor. She serves as the director of Kashkul (see WLT, July 2018) and the Slemani UNESCO City of Literature.
Photos: Hawre Khalid
THE MORTAR LANDED close, maybe two hundred meters away. Then, I saw only black smoke filling the sky. Till that moment, I had never seen smoke so big. As...
Ismail Khayat, A Girl, 2015, Sulaimani, 40 x 27, acrylic paint and colored pencils on paper
You in Me
On the shore of the warm seaI standMy heels kiss your shoresI lift my dress to my knees...
Photo:Ismail Khayat, A Girl, 2015, Sulaimani, 40 x 27, acrylic paint and colored pencils on paper.
Answer
After Halabja* suffocated,I wrote a long complaint to GodBefore...
Ismail Khayat, Sleeping, 2013, Sulaimani, 33 x 33, pencil on paper.
Soccer
I see Kurdistan as a soccer field, independence as a ball, plump with air. From the beginning of our existence, run...