The poem was the last one in my first chapbook (Paper Nautilus Press). The last lines of the poem were the title of the chapbook: "looking for what isn't there." No one so far has mentioned that.
Andres Rojas on "Looking for Migrants" |
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"A Conversation with Hala Alyan and Zeina Hashem Beck"
"We have a beautiful range in terms of different interpretations of love but also different ages, different generations, different countries, not just US-centric. Hala has spent a lot of time in the Arab world. I was still back in Dubai when this anthology was in process, and so we recognize, yes, you're talking about writing in English, so there are a lot of people from the US, but we wanted as much as possible not to center America."
via LOS ANGELES REVIEW OF BOOKS |
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What Sparks Poetry:
Matt Donovan on Other Arts
"Yet, as with each of the blackout poems I wrote for our Missing Department project (twenty-five in all), there were always more resonant and unexpected meanings to explore beyond any words the two texts happened to share. Although I might have been initially pleased to make a connection between the mother's address in Klamath Falls and the story's descriptions of a river that ran through the center of its fictional town, for instance, the presence of moving water ended up affording me the poem's core metaphor." |
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