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The Guardian 10:10 campaign

AAlfaro  •  02 October, 2009

The UK newspaper The Guardian has kicked off a campaign called The 10:10 Climate Change Campaign in order to help reduce carbon emissions throughout the world. The newspaper invited some major British poets to contribute poems responding to the crisis. Here we present two such poems. The first poem called 2084 is by Carol Rumens, a poet from South London who has published some 14 collections of poems amongst other works. The second poem called Virgil's Bees comes from current poet laureate of Great Britain, Carol Ann Duffy.
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Mahnaz Badihian Video

AAlfaro  •  15 September, 2009


Ana Lucía Mendoza

AAlfaro  •  03 September, 2009

Ana Lucia Mendoza

I emphatically deny myself
from being reduced to body, desire, womb
even though She and the System cling to the contrary
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CARMEN BELTRÁN

AAlfaro  •  31 August, 2009


Carmen Beltrán was born in Logroño, Spain in 1981. She has her degree in humanities and is a member of the Asociación Cultural Planeta Clandestino (Underground Cultural Planet Association) as well as Ediciones del 4 de Agosto (August 4th Publications). She has collaborated with literary magazines such as Portales, Fábula y Bart and has published a book of poetry Prohibido jugar [Playing Prohibited] (CELYA, Salamanca, 2005) as well as several poems and short stories in different compilation books. She was the coordinator for the book La otra voz. Poesía femenina en La Rioja [The Other Voice. Feminine Poetry in La Rioja] (Ediciones del 4 de Agosto, 2005). Her poetry has also appeared in the anthology La verdadera historia de los hombres [The True Story of Men] (Eclipsados, Zaragoza, 2005). Currently she is the coordinator of the Aula Literaria de Logroño [The Literary Lecture Hall of Logroño] as well as the literary magazine Portales.


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Alfredo Trejos in translation

AAlfaro  •  25 August, 2009



Read more here to see the translations from Spanish to English of the poems that Alfredo Trejos is reading.

Or you can read the Spanish transcriptions in MahMag Spanish HERE
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vultures/chinua achebe

AAlfaro  •  21 August, 2009

Chinua Achebe

In the greyness
and drizzle of one despondent
dawn unstirred by harbingers
of sunbreak a vulture
perching high on broken
bones of a dead tree....
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Oretta Dalle Ore

AAlfaro  •  19 August, 2009

Let’s look for a different idea of art

of music, living, living together, reliving.............
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Skewed Perspectives by Andrés Alfaro

AAlfaro  •  17 August, 2009

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The harrowing winds of the morning
sweep through villages both
old and new.............
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Mario Meléndez

AAlfaro  •  14 August, 2009


Beyond the guitar
the blood is sketching out a violent music
and the singer's head is filled with holes
and with kisses that smell of death
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Alejandro Mendez

AAlfaro  •  11 August, 2009

Alejandro Mendez

Alejandro Mendez was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1965.

41 years

I will stop myself there
to make a toast with the
strange
golem
of light
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The Ancient Mustache Hair / Mahnaz Badihian (oba)

AAlfaro  •  10 August, 2009

mahnaz badihian

With a few simple words he said
“I hope you're not tired my love”
And I was so happy that someone
understood my weariness
it felt like a sugar cube melting in my heart.

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Lebogang Mashile

mahmag  •  09 August, 2009


I wore you
I wore you today
Like a raggedy coat
For the feel of how warm it used be
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Mashile won the 2006 Noma Award for her poetry collection, In a Ribbon of Rhythm.

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Voices of Protest: The Iranian Word/ Shirin Sadeghi/Huffington post

mahmag  •  28 July, 2009

shirin sadeghi

Iranians have been protesting for centuries -- if you could read Persian, you'd know.
They are a nation with a keen sense of their rights, and an audacity to speak up for themselves, whether it's in the streets, on the page or on the web.

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Pomegranate Tree / Mahnaz badihian(Oba)

mahmag  •  27 July, 2009

mahnaz badihian


There are women who will go to bed
With their lover with my body
And they will talk and kiss with my lips
They will talk with my voice

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Tragic wars /Elnaz Rezai

mahmag  •  26 July, 2009

Angry soldiers fill with tiny footsteps
the bellies of helpless women
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