“Tum Bilkul Hum Jaise Nikle”: Pakistani Poet Fahmida Riaz On Hate Crimes
As India basks in the glory of unchecked hate-crimes, it is time to remember the lines of Pakistani poet Fahmida Riaz, who warned about such scenario long ago. The video…
“I am always in the process of becoming”: Andrea Gibson In Conversation With Eyezine
Andrea Gibson is a poet, spoken word artist and gender rights activist. In 2014, Gibson became the first Women of the World Poetry Slam winner and has had their work…
What Makes A Man Eater : Eliza Divine
Eliza Divine is an author, poet, and creative entrepreneur. Her poems have been published in various online magazines such as Every Day Poets and Infernal Ink Magazine. Eye Art Collective…
THE VISION
By Rajosik Mitra Balanced at the edge of my dreams Is a vision eluding me Like the rain falling soft - In the dark, you hear but cannot see. To have once heard the lore, To have it linger like an image From an old dream of long before- Is the key to a strange truth A strange truth from an ancient rune, That draws you forward Like moth to a distant moon; For I have loved the things I see and hear in vain, Searched every dark corner For pain with a greater sustain;…
Three a.m.
Our cabdriver tells us how Somalia is better than here because in Islam we execute murderers. So, fewer murders. But isn't there civil war there now? Aren't there a lot…
Anis Mojgani – Come Closer
Come closer. Come into this. Come closer. You are quite the beauty. If no one has ever told you that before know that now. You are quite the beauty. There…
To J.K. Rowling, From Cho Chang: Rachel Rostad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFPWwx96Kew When you put me in your books, millions of Asian girls across America rejoiced! Finally, a potential Halloween costume that wasn't a geisha or Mulan! What’s not to love…
Hope
By Abhijay Gupta At age twenty seven man turns around To look through the abyss Back at the beginning. Left at the mercy of his own inadequate wisdom, Left awoken…
Mother of Dragons: Tai Weinman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5-nYJu-syE "Yes girl, a volcano rests on your tongue. Know when to blow smoke and when it’s time to drop jaw and burn everything down."
Elevator Etiquette
When you’re alone in an elevator. When you’re alone in an elevator with an elderly lady. When you’re alone in an elevator with an elderly lady who’s afraid. When you’re…
Bluebird, Charles Bukowski: Animated
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsc3ItAKSLc there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see…
Repetition: Phil Kaye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6KI6c_IfvHg You watch the sunset too often and it just becomes 6 pm. You make the same mistake over and over and you’ll stop calling it a mistake. If you…
Mind Geopolitics
By Anisha Baid Who can tell me If the air ten feet from me is mine yet? Or do I have to wait still For it to be in…
The Universe and Her, And I
"I don’t care what your appearance is. You are not that at all. You are soul. And soul is you." The Universe and Her, and I #275 Via Remington Typewriter…
From The Mouth Of The River
By Srionti Maitra It is deep night as I write this. When things die, things like cousins and dreams, and you don't feel much, or enough to satisfy yourself, it…
“Postcards”: Sarah Kay
“There is a girl who still writes you. She doesn’t know how not to." Sarah Kay on long-distance love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWPx9UyEdYw
Lao Tzu and Alan Watts : Finding inner peace.
"Cut out cleverness and there are no anxieties. People in general are so happy, as if enjoying a feast, Or as going up a tower in spring. I alone am…
Having A Coke With You : Frank O’Hara
Having a Coke with You Is even more fun than going to San Sebastian, Irún, Hendaye, Biarritz, Bayonne or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in…
Caravans in the Sky
By Aranya Gupta The sky is a bruise on the skin of space At night, when black and blue It whispers in all its hopelessness: "there's nothing you can do"…
Please call me a cloud
Do not take the still of a hounded head ever so slightly, you come in go out shuffle drawers and pull out The beard pricks in unkind possibilities, leaves me…
Textbook Drunk
Why don’t we ever get drunk enough? Always we fall short, Or stumble a little Across the line, Lying in the afterglow, Of a vanished high. We never dream of…
Blitzkrieg
When they told me that Mars was bright tonight, I called you over to lie with me on my roof And gaze into the unknown, Like a corny lover waxing…