German author Herta Mueller has been awarded the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature Herta Mueller’s win is announced was last modified: October 8th, 2009 by mahnaz badihian
Raymond Queneau (1903-1976), mathematician, poet and novelist, published in 1961 his monumental work Cent Mille Milliards de poèmes (One Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets). This herculean work consists of 14 groups of 10 lines of poetry. The 100,000,000,000,000 Sonnets/Raymond Queneuau was last modified: October 6th, 2009 by andres alfaro
Three short poems by Iranian poet Nosratollah Masoudi. The first two are love poems and the last is an elegy. Nosratollah Masoudi was last modified: October 5th, 2009 by andres alfaro
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 […]
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I emphatically deny myself from being reduced to body, desire, womb even though She and the System cling to the contrary Ana Lucía Mendoza was last modified: September 3rd, 2009 by andres alfaro
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 […]
Poem: The Moment the Two Worlds Meet by Sharon Olds from the poetry collection The Gold Cell This poem starts with a very strong and distinct sentence that makes the reader curious. “That’s the moment I always think of.” A Poem by Sharon Olds, review by Mahnaz Badihian was last […]
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 Alfredo Trejos in translation was last modified: August 25th, 2009 by andres alfaro
Laal is a band on a revolutionary mission. The communist Pakistani band Laal (meaning “Red” in Urdu) fuses modern rock with a traditional Eastern sound and blends revolutionary poetry into their songs. This video shows the song “Umeed-E-Sehr,” or “hope of a new dawn.” Pakistani Band Laal was last modified: […]