Poetree: Weekly Round-up and Upcoming Week Signal Boost

jjhunter asked me to pinch-hit for this week's poetree weekly round-up. For those who are unfamiliar with, or new to, the poetree community, the weekly round-up is a compilation of links to the last week's posts that is done to help community members keep track of all the fun things going on within the community. This round-up covers the week of January 8-January 15. jjhunter will be doing a round-up covering the prior week's posts.

Poetree host avendya posts and associated poems:

Poem of the Day: Tea and Sleep (Taha Muhammad Ali)
-poem by Taha Muhammad Ali, translated Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi and Gabriel Levin

Black Out (Faiz Ahmed Faiz)
-poem by Faiz Ahmed Faiz, translated by Agha Shahid Ali

E-mails From Scheherazad (Mohja Kahf)
-poem by Mohja Kahf

Highlights from the comments:

herlander_refugee:

[S]o evocative of suffering and the effort to maintain human and humane dignity in spite of it all.

ysabetwordsmith:

*shiver*

Warzone poems can be very powerful. I think they need to be shared.

I remember when some poems from Guantanamo Bay were refused declassification. So I wrote a poem about that.

syntaxofthings:

Wow, I really like the rhythm of this piece. Almost like a rap song. I agree, it's really cool to see Scheherazade's viewpoint.

Associated posts and other posts of interest:

The Rhysling Award now accepts crowdfunded and self-published poetry!
-information about changed to the official rules for the Rhysling Award (a contest run by the Science Fiction Poetry Association).

Our Poetry Host for the upcoming week is Luisa A. Igloria.