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Artist Ekaterina Panikanova paints on old books. As you can see, the results are extraordinary.

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Snake: Poetry of the Women of Afghanistan

Writer Eliza Griswold and photographer Seamus Murphy went to Afghanistan in search of Pashtun women’s poetry. In cities and villages in Kabul, Nangrahar, and Helmand Provinces they collected two-line folk poems called Landays.

Landays are two-line poems from Afghanistan; the word landay meaning short, poisonous snake. Reading them opens up the hidden world of Pashtun women. I hope the photographs conjured here from absorbing their wisdom and provocation can achieve something similar.

What makes landays even more remarkable is that the poetry comes from mostly illiterate Pashtun women leading isolated lives in rural areas. In the form of a 22- syllable couplet, they anonymously cover risky and taboo subjects; love, loss, exile, sex, drones, the Taliban, the weakness of men, being sold to old men, America.

Anonymity is the key to their candor, as it was the license I used to approach this as a photographer. As I couldn’t, or at least shouldn’t photograph the women, it freed me to capture what they wrote about. Life, and their lives in Afghanistan.

Poet and writer Eliza Griswold and I had long talked about collaborating on a project about Afghanistan that would satisfy our particular curiosity for the place. Eliza worked on the words and I worked on the imagery. Poetry Magazine in the U.S. is devoting its June 2013 issue to the word and picture story we produced, the first time in 100 years of publishing they have given an entire edition to one subject.

- Seamus Murphy

Via Poetry Foundation

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A line of advice from Philip Levine
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A line of advice from Philip Levine

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David Foster Wallace’s notes from a tax accounting class. (via)

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The New Museum is pleased to present “The Rub,” a new commission for First Look by poet Cathy Park Hong and video artist Mores McWreath.
It’s an e-chapbook of .GIFS and haiku. Go see it >
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poetsorg:

The New Museum is pleased to present “The Rub,” a new commission for First Look by poet Cathy Park Hong and video artist Mores McWreath.

It’s an e-chapbook of .GIFS and haiku. Go see it >

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Anne Carson, from Plainwater
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Anne Carson, from Plainwater

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ISSUE 31 has arrived, chock-full of strange and beautiful work.


Join us at our Spring Launch Party on April 6th, 7-9 PM, at the Lillian Vernon House (58 West 10th, New York, NY).
Readings by Rachel Zucker, Ana Božičević, & John Oliver Hodges.
Raffle prizes from 92nd Street Y, Symphony Space, FSG, Soho Press, Black Ocean Press, Icarus Films & more.
Plus, copies of our spiffy new issue, drinks, and great company.
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ISSUE 31 has arrived, chock-full of strange and beautiful work.

Join us at our Spring Launch Party on April 6th, 7-9 PM, at the Lillian Vernon House (58 West 10th, New York, NY).

Readings by Rachel Zucker, Ana Božičević, & John Oliver Hodges.

Raffle prizes from 92nd Street Y, Symphony Space, FSG, Soho Press, Black Ocean Press, Icarus Films & more.

Plus, copies of our spiffy new issue, drinks, and great company.

RSVP on Facebook

 

 

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Come find Washington Square Review at table#F6 during the AWP BOOK FAIR! Meet the brains behind ON SQU, pick up current and back issues of the journal, and go home with ON SQU swag.
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Come find Washington Square Review at table#F6 during the AWP BOOK FAIR! Meet the brains behind ON SQU, pick up current and back issues of the journal, and go home with ON SQU swag.

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aaknopf:

Jesse Ball draws on napkins. He also writes award-worthy fiction and poetry. Our pals at Pantheon will publish Silence Once Begun, his first hardcover release, this January. 
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Jesse Ball draws on napkins. He also writes award-worthy fiction and poetry. Our pals at Pantheon will publish Silence Once Begun, his first hardcover release, this January. 

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