Poems by Joan Dobbie and Zeina Azzam

Joan Dobbie

Snow melting fast
Birds come out of hiding — some sing —

(c) 2019 Joan Dobbie

Joan Dobbie co-hosts the monthly River Road Reading Series riverroadreadings.blogspot.com. She co-created “The Many Faces of Hatha Yoga” (Kendall Hunt, 2012) and published Woodstock Baby, A Novel in Poetry (The Unforgettables Press, 2013) She has a 1988 MFA in Creative Writing and teaches Hatha Yoga at the University of Oregon. Her “Love Song in the Language of Stone” is due out in October 2019. Meet her at https://joandobbie.blogspot.com.

Zeina Azzam

Dear Aphrodite

You were consorting with the god of war while entrancing us with
your beauty. So many children you bore him. Generations of pain.

© 2019 Zeina Azzam

Zeina Azzam is a Palestinian American writer, editor, poet, and community activist in Alexandria, Virginia, where she lives. Her poems appear in a number of literary journals and anthologies. She has an MA in Arabic literature from Georgetown University.

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