LITERARY HUB   When War Destroyed My Grandmother’s Grave   IN IRAQ, WAR COMES WITH VARIOUS NAMES VIA NEW DIRECTIONS Share: Share on Facebook (Opens in new window)28 Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to ...

    The Exodus Their pieces of clothing looked like white flags in a time of war, or like delayed dreams. By Dunya Mikhail TODAY 10:28 AM Today’s Life and War. (Photograph by Gohar Dashti) Like the turtle, I walk ...

  The Spring by  Dunya Mikhail translated by  Max Weiss Offering tea in the Qadia/Rwanga IDP (internally displaced persons) camp, in the western Dohuk governorate of northern Iraq. As of February 2017, the population of the camp was 14,762 (including ...

  Tablets II BY DUNYA MIKHAIL 1   I close my eyes and I see a dot. It becomes a spot of light. It grows into the size of a person who distances away until it returns to a spot ...

MODERN POETRY IN TRANSLATION     DUNYA MIKHAIL Tablets III TRANSLATED BY THE POET 1 Like the turtle, I walk everywhere with my home on my back. 2 The mirror on the wall doesn’t show any of the faces that ...

Dunya Mikhail Dunya Mikhail — Iraqi-American Poet “When you write a poem in your language, you write it one time. And when you think in the other language, and try to write a poem in the other language, I feel ...

LITERATURE, POETRY THE GYPSY/الغجرية BY DUNYA MIKHAIL “She knows the time/ from the way the roses bend,/ from how far or near the sky is…” Poem of the Week (January 11), by Dunya Mikhail. Translated from Arabic by the poet. ...

Dunya Mikhail contributor Dunya Mikhail was born in Iraq in 1965 and came to the United States in 1996.  She has six books in Arabic, three in English, and one in Italian.  They include The Iraqi Nights, Diary of A ...

SPLIT THIS ROCK Calling poets to a greater role in public life and fostering a national network of socially engaged poets. The Iraqi Nights, Section 7 By Dunya MikhailIn Iraq, after a thousand and one nights, someone will talk to ...

  Contributor Dunya Mikhail Born in Iraq in 1965, Dunya Mikhail is famous for her subversive, innovative, and satirical poetry. She has published four collections of poetry in Arabic, including The Psalms of Absence, Diary of a Wave Outside the ...