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Poetry Archives - Eleventh Column

Poetry

“And When Did The Kindness End?”

Two poems - "The Moplah Speaks of Rivers" and "The Country of Infidel Airplanes"

Poetry Resurrects Itself: Translation of Two Poems by Jyoti Prasad Agarwala

Translations of two poems by the doyen of Assamese literature.

You Can’t Breathe, We Are Blind

I am not a hypocrite, India is just not the same, as the west.

Encounter

Who will believe you, Muslim man?

Hunger, Helplessness, Hope: How Five Young Assamese Poets Are Spending Their Lockdown Days

Jyotirmoy Talukdar speaks to five prominent young poets from Assam about how they see the COVID-19 crisis and the ensuing lockdown.

There is a tunnel

Where are those good old days? / Will they ever be here, anymore?

A Ballad of Bawling Babies

Verses on war and what follows.

What I Left Behind

The war made him leave his home behind, suddenly and begrudgingly. | Amir Darwish

Syria

A kingdom of broken dreams, buried inside the eyes of their corpses | Faris Fakhreldin

Vignettes of Love and Peace: Letters From Kabul

"just another morning in Kabul" | Jhilmil Breckenridge