Mahnaz Badihian reading at Cafe Que Tal during Litcrawl 2010. Hosted by The International Poetry Library of San Francisco. Intro by Kim Mahler.

These poems form a suite called “Kandahar Suite”-

The statues she had known before wore stranger faces

Carlos Drummond de Andrade/A time when you no longer can say: my love.

We could be different if only it was different and

by D. H. Lawrence /The first day to heave your feet little by little from

Ay, ay, ay, that the slave was my grandfather
is my sadness, is my sadness.

And yet you will weep and know why.

I am sick of the spirit of Lindbergh over everything, / Gerald Stern

By Shirin Sadeghi for Ceasefire Magazine Making my way through 26th street, just past 6th avenue […]