
Coping With Grief
Poetry and Silence: Toward Creating a Healing Space
“It’s as if a poem creates the space in which silence can be experienced.” —Cliff Yates “I love poetry for numerous reasons, but one very

“It’s as if a poem creates the space in which silence can be experienced.” —Cliff Yates “I love poetry for numerous reasons, but one very

I do not envy Lord Krishna when he meets my mother in his Heavenly Abode. Before she passed away in the COVID ICU, my mother

Rings from my work desk And again The ocean flattens itself A stalking, tired animal Her voice could have been Miscalculated Tired having worked this

Not Dead – Poem by Lisa Suhair Majaj.
Lisa Suhair Majaj is author of Geographies of Light (Del Sol Press). Her poetry has been translated into Arabic, Greek, and Hebrew. Her poems appeared in the exhibit Aftermath: The Fallout of War (Harn Museum of Art, 2016). She lives in Cyprus, the homeland of her late husband, Andreas Alexandrou.