“Apollo only showers acclaim and accolade/ on the hesitant, reluctant/ crop of Pakistan’s 9/11 English language novelists/ with their liberal credentials, hurt countenances…” Poem of the Week (July 13), by Raza Ali Hasan.
“In the benighted landscape of palace ruins,/the blind poplars, in an abortive, elliptical row,/put their foreheads to the moon…” By Raza Ali Hasan
“Just a few grains of rice can be of great lift: a little fire,/ a pot full of water…” By Raza Ali Hasan