New Poetry: Three Poems by Rana al-Tonsi
“Is there a way to contact heaven?
I wage wars against myself
And I always lose”
Rana al-Tonsi
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.”