Excerpt from "What they Did Yesterday Afternoon" by Warsan Shire
i’ve been praying,
and these are what my prayers look like;
dear god
i come from two countries
one is thirsty
the other is on fire
both need water.
https://poetrying.wordpress.com/2015/04/28/what-they-did-yesterday-afternoon-warsan-shire/
later that night
i held an atlas in my lap
ran my fingers across the whole world
and whispered
where does it hurt?
it answered
everywhere
everywhere
everywhere.
"Who gets to be the hero of an epic or the protagonist of a tragedy, and who is relegated to the margins of human history?” Priyamvada Gopal on two vessels in distress.
#PriyamvadaGopa. #Titan #Refugees #Odyssey #WarsanShire
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/6/21/titan-and-the-trawler-whose-lives-matter
What Warsan Shire can do with words
I know I'm late to this party but Warsan Shire, holy cow.
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Deep Dive:
I found a few of these aforementioned facts...
So #Kaur was accused of #plagiarism (or mimicry?) by #Waheed who also may have copied Warsan Shire. More interesting is the discussion in the 1st link about a distinction between Kaur as an "#instapoet" and #WarsanShire as a professional #poet. Lots of issues at play, including increased scrutiny on #WOC.
https://www.stuyspec.com/ae/literature/the-ills-of-instapoetry
https://www.distractify.com/p/rupi-kaur-plagiarism
https://twitter.com/dopegirlfresh/status/1212373802207891456?t=Xm54ShzZolBdic76hOUTig&s=19
Oh no oh no--
So now i read about #WarsanShire. Someone on Tumblr thinks #NayyriahWaheed mimicked Warsan Shire and that #RupiKaur isn't better or worse. So maybe it isn't #plagiarism? Maybe people are just doing a normal critique of #poetry? I really don't know!
"Home" by Warsan Shire https://youtu.be/nI9D92Xiygo
portions of this poem have been appropriated all over. Please pay respect to #WarsanShire and listen her speak the entire piece.
and stop appropriating it for yourselves
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