My Poem Will Not Save You: Featured Poetry by Dunya Mikhail

‘Rotation,’ A Poem by Dunya Mikhail

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        Dunya Mikhail is an Iraqi American poet. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, Knights Foundation Grant, Kresge Fellowship, Arab American Book Award, and UN Human Rights Award for Freedom of Writing. New Directions published her books ...

  amberflora DUNYA MIKHAIL: DRAWING 01/09/2018 Dunya Mikhail was born in Iraq (Baghdad) and came to the United States thirty years later. Her books include The Beekeeper of Sinjar, The Iraqi Nights, Diary of A Wave Outside the Sea, and ...

    Tablets IV BY DUNYA MIKHAIL 1   I wanted to write an epic about suffering, but when I found a tendril of her hair among the ruins of her mud house, I found my epic there.     ...

  The Stranger in Her Feminine Sign BY DUNYA MIKHAIL Everything has gender in Arabic. History is male. Fiction is female. Dream is male. Wish is female.   Feminine words are followed by a circle with two dots over. They ...

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