Warscapes Articles

October 15, 2013
Brenda Marie Osbey’s long poem, “History,” from which we have published an excerpt here, comes from her recent collection History and Other...
September 16, 2013
Drowning: 16 December, 1971 ‘Yahya Khan drowned the two-nation theory.’ Tikka Khan (1) , we only went looking into the water to stare at...
September 5, 2013
Editor's Preface For his twelfth birthday, our mother decked my brother’s cake with a squad of Marines. We sang, he blew out the candles,...
March 23, 2013
Editor's Preface In the standard Western narrative, World War 2 began on September 3, 1939, when the inchoate Allied Powers invaded...
December 20, 2012
Editor's Preface These new poems by Meena Alexander, taken from her chapbook Impossible Grace (Centre for Jerusalem Studies, 2012), give us...
September 17, 2012
urban renewal double it or nothing, you and your hybridism your face needs to be lifted, the sprawl beyond your subconscious needs to be...
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August 6, 2012
The Breadless Parrot of Boulevard Kropotkin.... At the centre of the city that exists under our Côte d'Ivoire, exact in its wonder to that...
May 25, 2012
CLIFF DWELLERS it’s noon and people are leaving windows empty even shadows know now to keep their distance all that remains blank stone...
May 2, 2012
This poem was written right after Burma granted national amnesty to political prisoners on January 13, 2012. Khet Mar explains, "Many of my...
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March 16, 2012
Excerpted from a forthcoming book entitled Corpses on the Menu: Blood, Bullets and Bones Graduate of Clan War Academy Born in the eruption...
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February 23, 2012
In conjunction with The Center for Place, Culture and Politics , Warscapes magazine presents An Evening of Poetry from the Horn of Africa...

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