Poems

introduction

In 1999, I wrote a poem that kicked off the start of Voice Breaking Boundaries. I recently rewrote the poem in honor of the women in Swat and read it at VBB’s March 8 International Women’s Day event.

Over the last few years, I’ve been writing and publishing poems in print and on-line magazines including Border Senses, Alhamra Literary Review and ASIA: Magazine of Asian Literature. One of my poems, “Karachi in Flames. Again,” was translated in Urdu by my mother Zakia Sarwar and read aloud at a Karachi rally honoring the May 12, 2007 carnage. The poem was also published in a Women’s Action Forum magazine.

You can read Burning Wires, Building Bridges on my blog, Daily Noise. I wrote this poem in 2007 after visiting my friends Rich Yanez and Carolina Monsivais in El Paso.

poems

“Why I Can’t/ Don’t Write About the War” and “Tearing Wires, Building Bridges.” ASIA: Magazine of Asian Literature 3.4 (2008): 94-103.

 “Tearing Wires, Building Bridges.” Border Senses online Magazine, June 2007.
“For René” and “Jamshed Road.” Alhamra Literary Review, Volume 2, Spring 2007, pp 116-118.
“Nothing Lovely’s Ever Going to Happen in My Life” in Centerpiece, Center for Education, Rice University, PO Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251-1892, Fall-Spring 1998-99, p.8.