Author: Sara Elkamel
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Ghinwa Jawhari on her debut chapbook: BINT Interviewed by Sara Elkamel
Ghinwa Jawhari named her debut chapbook, selected by poet Aria Aber for publication by Radix Media, BINT, Arabic for girl. In Arab cultures, the word is also used to describe a virgin woman, of any age. In this series of poems, compact in form yet unbridled in lyricism, Jawhari explores the passage (particularly of those…
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THREE POEMS by Sara Elkamel
FEAR & IRRIGATION They promised to give me the song’s weight in goldso I carved the song in granite. We put my songs in the fruitless garden.Look at the light pouring there! you gasp, digging around the cold hard trees, rubbing their barks with milk. I’ve carved all I could so I make more milk.…