Author Archives: laimah

Visual Poetry Tent

Visual Poetry Tent at Emily Dickinson’s 🏠 Part of Of Soil and Tongues Some say goodnight—at night— 1739 Some say goodnight—at night— I say goodnight by day— Good-bye—the Going utter me— Goodnight, I still reply— For parting, that is night, And presence, simply dawn— Itself, the purple on the height Denominated morn.

Fall Poetry Festival

I will be on a panel with Sahar Muradi at Hampshire College Art Gallery on Friday, September 15th. We will talk about our collaboration visualizing her poems. And I will be teaching a printmaking workshop on Saturday, September 16th. All part of the Amherst Poetry Festival and Emily Dickinson Poetry Marathon. Come experience poetry!

City Lore

My prints are featured at City Lore Gallery, part of Poetic Voices of the Muslim World.  The exhibition highlights the poetic traditions from four major language areas — Arabic, Persian, Turkish, and Urdu — and introduces poetry from Asia, Africa, and diasporic communities in the United States.

Mexico

In November 2015, I was a resident artist at Arquetopia in Puebla, Mexico.  I lived, worked and explored with four talented women artists.  I screen printed my latest word on fabric purchased at the bustling town square–zĂłcalo.  Emily Millichip made two shirts from the printed fabric.

Poison

Poison, written by Nadia Anjuman in the Summer of 2001 in Herat, Afghanistan.  I letterpress printed her original Farsi poem alongside an English translation by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar in September, 2015.  I printed this to honor all the women who have been murdered in Afghanistan and beyond in misogynist societies. To read more of […]