Tea with Terrible Questions
“And if one of the functions of art is to disturb the status quo, to force us to view the world...
Read MoreFarzana Marie is a poet and PhD candidate at the University of Arizona, where she studies Persian Literature and Creative Writing. Farzana’s poetry and translations have appeared in print and on-line journals including The Rusty Nail, Adanna, Fourteen Hills, When Women Waken, Zócalo, Antiphon, Guernica, Atticus Review, The Fourth River, and others. She is the author of the nonfiction book, Hearts for Sale! A Buyer's Guide to Winning in Afghanistan (Worldwide Writings, 2013), a poetry chapbook Letters to War and Lethe (Finishing Line Press, 2014), and a book of Persian Dari poetry in translation, Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan (Holy Cow! Press, 2015). She is president of Civil Vision International and can be found on Twitter @farzanamarie.
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“And if one of the functions of art is to disturb the status quo, to force us to view the world...
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I wanted to discover whether or not I had understood, had yet learned what I needed to about war....
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Remember far enough or imagine ahead and you’ll find war—or it’ll find you… War and art have...
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“I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the...
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Military outposts are not like homes but they are where soldiers sleep, eat, shit, work out, drink...
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