The City Issue_ Editors’ Note
Welcome to MahMag’s City Issue # 1
This is the first in the series of issues on the theme “The City.” Poets featured here question the city’s walls, shake up the brick and mortar icons of superpowers, trans-posit the ironies and dilemmas of life onto the surrounding cityscape. Included, also, is art based on our theme.
In future issues, we will explore this theme further: marketplaces, old and new, souls lost in the hustle and bustle, cities of fantasy, cities in despair, border cities, forgotten cities, cities under siege. We hope to see deeper, darker, brighter and larger truths emerge from this mosaic of city poems.
About the Editor:
Shadab Zeest Hashmi grew up in the Pakistani border town of Peshawar during the time of the USSR-Afghan war. She was educated at Kinnaird (Pakistan) and Reed College and received her MFA from Warren Wilson in 2009. Her book on the civilization of Al Andalus Baker of Tarifa is the winner of the 2011 San Diego Book Award for poetry. Her work has appeared in Poetry International, Nimrod, The Bitter Oleander, Journal of Postcolonial Writings, The Cortland Review, South Asian Review, Vallum and other places. She has been nominated for a Pushcart prize and is currently a writer-in-residence at San Diego State University.
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