Kurdish poetry

  • A dark hole opened into rocky, dry soil

    Four Poems from Kurdistan

    By Kawan Nahaee
    September 8, 2020 Kawan Nahaee
    Photo by Kawan Nahaee Both a poet and novelist in Kurdish and Persian, Kawan Nahaee has a significant audience on social media, where the poems he posts often engage with curren…
  • A young boy pauses on his bicycle on a gravel road with the sun either rising or setting behind a makeshift wall

    Three Poems from Kurdistan

    September 3, 2019 Zêdan Xelef
    A boy riding his bike near the Chamishko IDP camp in Iraqi Kurdistan, near the Turkish border / Photo by David Shook Non-Broadcast News Today a fire broke out in two tents The famil…