We recently hosted poet and writer Medina Tenour Whiteman for a heart-opening and inspiring online reading from her poetry book “Love is a Traveller and We are its Path”. The conversation ranged from motherhood and creativity to the…
What inspires you to write poetry?Sometimes a poem owes its gestation to an event or to something I’ve read, e.g. the poem Sema is a response to a touristic performance of the Sema I attended some years ago in…
"Poetry provides us with our truth. If a poet is not truthful it becomes very clear in a poem. Poets do not usually write for fame or fortune so poetry has an element of the sacred." Halee…
"The role of rhetoric, academic articles, of preachers on the pulpits are all indubitably and absolutely crucial in building the foundation of our community’s faith and Islamic identity, I won’t argue with that. However, even when combined, they…
Roundhouse Poetry Slam winner Rakaya Esime Fetuga discusses the interaction of faith, culture and expression in her work. A selection of Rakaya’s poetry will appear in the upcoming anthology A KALEIDOSCOPE OF STORIES – Muslim Voices in Contemporary…