Words on Terror (ft. Solmaz Sharif, Mariam Ghani, Cathy Park Hong, & Rickey Laurentiis)

Summary: Two years ago on this month, we celebrated the release of Solmaz Sharif's poetry collection Look. Her poetry bears witness to, in the words of NPR, “war in the Middle East, the war on terror, the devastation ravaged upon families in the name of freedom.” Featuring Mariam Ghani, Cathy Park Hong, Rickey Laurentiis, and Solmaz Sharif, their work analyzes state sponsored violence through language, forms poems from Guantanamo Bay redacted letters, and parses “the fault line from Ferguson to Palestine.”