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Literature.Feb 23, 2017

Borders

“This is not a suitcase or a fleeing day. This is not Arabic jazz or a city of lights.”
A poem against borders, by Nathalie Handal.

By Poetry Team
Literature.Feb 23, 2017

Your Mystery is the Milky Way

“: Who wants most when the wave is weary?/ : Who’s marred most when the map is missing?”
A poem against borders, by Nathalie Handal.

By Poetry Team
Literature.Feb 23, 2017

Midnight Train to Georgia

“Didn’t you know/ I was afraid to count the music/ on your side of midnight…”
A poem against borders, by Nathalie Handal.

By Poetry Team
Pushcart Prize.Nov 16, 2016

Pushcart Prize 2017 Nominations

The Missing Slate’s six nominations for the 2017 Pushcart Prizes.

By Jacob Silkstone
Roving Eye.Oct 31, 2016

Poet of the Month: Nathalie Handal

“It’s important our works are read beyond the wreckages of where we come from…”
Nathalie Handal, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Pratyusha Prakash.

By Jacob Silkstone
Literature.Oct 26, 2016

Opera Kabul

“there are ten moons in this room,/ a thousand miles in this corridor/ but not a single whisper inside us…”
Poem of the Week (October 26), by Nathalie Handal.

By Jacob Silkstone
Essays.Oct 26, 2016

“Kabul stops time. Its mountains are songs…”

A photo essay by Nathalie Handal, exploring the beauty of Kabul.

By Jacob Silkstone
Literature.Aug 14, 2016

The Record Keeper

“there is only absence falling into absence/ and there’s also a high window/ and there is always evening prayer…” Weekend poem, by Nathalie Handal.

By Jacob Silkstone
Literature.Jul 20, 2016

Echoes: A Historical Afterward

“The truth is you are part of the same tribe/But no one speaks about that//The reason is it’s easier to be a threat/How else can they justify the killing.” Poem of the Week (July 20), by Nathalie Handal.

By Jacob Silkstone