Farrah Akbik is a British-Syrian poet based in London who writes to raise awareness of the hardships Syria and Syrian refugees are going through. Al Sham (*another name for Damascus) I want to lay my head in the lap of Ghouta, Dull my senses with pomegranate wine. Drift like Ophelia down the river Barada, Lose … Continue reading
Warsan Shire‘s poems are angry and they argue and rage and weep. As fighting poems should. A British poet, born to Somali parents in Kenya, Shire’s poems have been read at rallies, and in homes and not-so-homes. She writes about people who are made invisible in society – often refugees, migrants, and other marginalised groups. … Continue reading
Miguel M. Morales grew up in Texas, in the US. He worked there as a child laborer and migrant or seasonal farmworker. He wrote this poem – by a migrant, about migrants. This Is a Migrant Poem This is a migrant poem a farmworking poem, a poem that covers itself in long sleeves to avoid … Continue reading
Olka Baldeh dedicated this poem to Orange Face. She’s calling her series of poems “Love Letters to Donald Trump”. Continue reading
