On National Poetry Day, here’s a sonnet that’s like rap, a protest poem for racial justice
by Rashmee
Posted on October 1, 2020
Today is National Poetry Day in Britain and I’ve been thinking a great deal about …
Read MoreAn AI breakthrough that may mean curtains for poets, journalists…and me
by Rashmee
Posted on July 23, 2020 / The Focus
I was very taken by economics professor Tyler Cowen’s recent rundown on an Artificial Intelligence …
Read MoreEver tried Ramadan in a poem?
by Rashmee
Posted on May 6, 2019
I was very taken by Libyan-American Khaled Mattawa’s poem, which bears the simple title ‘Ramadan’.…
Read MoreWhy we should miss the fading art of writing postcards
by Rashmee
Posted on January 25, 2019
The other day I came across Pulitzer Prize-winning prose poet Charles Simic’s musings in …
Read MoreA Chinese poet in the US faces his shadows
by Rashmee
Posted on September 1, 2018
I wonder what Ha Jin, a Chinese poet who stayed back in the US after …
Read MoreCan a poem be as deadly as a tank?
by Rashmee
Posted on August 5, 2018 / The Arab Weekly
A poem has certainly never stopped a tank, Nobel literature laureate Seamus Heaney once wrote, …
Read MoreTozeur in southern Tunisia wears its storied history fairly lightly
by Rashmee
Posted on June 1, 2018
Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, the 20th century poet whose style is admired throughout the Arab world and …
Read MoreDoes it matter that no poet graced the inauguration of President Donald Trump?
by Rashmee
Posted on January 21, 2017
Did it matter that no poet graced the inauguration of President Trump? Nah, the scoffers …
Read MoreA poem a day. Or how the oneness of the world – and self – can be poetically brought about
by Rashmee
Posted on October 24, 2016
Hannah Arendt, the theorist who looked deep into the heart of political darkness, once said …
Read More‘America, I sing you back’. Musings from a naturalized American in age of Trump
by Rashmee
Posted on August 10, 2016
As a naturalized American, I think it’s fair to say that one is deeply fearful …
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Rashmee has lived and worked in several countries in the past decade, including Afghanistan, India, Haiti, Tunisia, the UAE, US and UK