by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 31, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Letter to L You’re a character, a Roman numeral, an internet meme. Descendant from a peasant’s crook or cattle prod, you’re the twelfth letter of the alphabet, but missing from a baker’s dozen. You’re in every email I ever wrote, appearing in...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 30, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
Comfort Queens “As usual, we are joined today by about nine or ten gay men who follow me, and a legion of young queer women with anxiety who find me comforting.” Trixie Mattel, via a Livestream Being quiet and easily tired by being...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 29, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
A Prayer for Rima With echoes of the Arabic lullaby ‘yalla tnam’ Maybe after your bath— you will sit for a moment, the towel will hold you close like a quiet prayer— يا رب، نامت الطفلة، يا رب خلّيها تنام Ya Rab, the child sleeps, oh Lord, help her...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 28, 2026 | Featured, Poetry
TThe mirror in your apartment where I saw you praying through the angle of the door Now hangs only in my mind I breathe on its glass wipe away fly specks Tsyotsya but there is only the empty kitchen in the tower block in Volodymyr The rhomboids of...
by Sairah Ahsan | Jan 27, 2026 | Filmpoems
Brian Johnstone (1950-2021), was one of the founders of Scotland’s International Poetry Festival, StAnza and directed the festival over its first decade. He also founded Shore Poets in Edinburgh. Brian’s work was published around the world, and included four...
