‘The Love’: New Poetry in Translation by Hoda Omran
“Marriage is the afterlife / for which we have to cross this life, / leaving behind our homes and pasts, / waiting for justice with a light heart, / where our homes become our graves.”
Hoda Omran
‘The Experience’: New Poetry in Translation by Hoda Omran
“My city is full of barking / as if it were our shared memory / howling out there, in the cold.”
On Why Women’s Poetry in Arabic is Where It’s At
“For me, actually, I think we are impacted by male writers who are writing now, and they are writing about broken masculinity, which I don’t like either. So maybe women are free of this, relatively. Maybe they are marginalized, so they have more opportunity to think, to write.”