On Monday, Tehran-born poet Kaveh Akbar began tweeting out poetry written by poets from the seven countries — Iran, Libya, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Iraq, and Syria — impacted by President Donald Trump’s executive order that temporarily bans immigrants from those countries.
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Mohsen Emadi, Iran:
Filled with grief bordering happiness, / I didn’t care if I was safe” – Khaled Mattawa. Libya. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/54257 …
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