South Africa completely changed the way I write about home. I can see it very clearly and then this overwhelming urge to write out best what I just saw comes over me. I helped raise my sisters, they are my best friends, I have mothered them in the real sense. We’ve often wished we could sit down and interview her but we haven’t been lucky enough to have that opportunity. I live in London and have been here nearly my whole life, but it is a difficult city to connect to. A Diasporan Darling and afropolitan of note (Warsan is a Somali based in London who was born in Kenya and who travels extensively) she rarely gives interviews opting instead to share her thoughts through twitter. I was sixteen and it was a poetry slam. Teju Cole takes in the skyline from the roof of his apartment building in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and reflects on his American citizenship and Nigerian upbringing. To connect, honor, to confront.” But it’s her documenting of the present, always coming back to the subject of love and its many tender and punishing forms, that is enthralling.
How have you made sense of the praise you’ve received? Overwhelming. Fearless and vulnerable, she pulls back layers to expose not only the pain, but the healing as well. I never plan it. What is you favorite moment from these workshops? Before South Africa I could not even write about home. ***** Ask a Poet: Warsan Shire by Indigo Williams | http://bit.ly/YPwi3H The title of her first published collection of poetry, Teaching My Mother …
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Shire was the actual Young Poet Laureate of London in 2014, the city’s first.
What do your names mean? How is the process of editing and vetting the work of other writers different from writing? However, because of Warsan’s work and interactions online there are often times we find that the questions we would ask have already been answered through prose, tweets and previous interviews. In what ways do they mother you?
I understood homesickness in a more direct, desperate. The permission to be vulnerable.
I still feel very homeless. KR: Your names are Warsan Shire.
I have travelled around and found my body making more sense elsewhere.
Is home a tangible place, a feeling, a destination…? Neruda. In many ways I want my writing to serve them when they grow up, like an almost ‘”how to” book. The organization is now partnering with Warsan Shire to host an awards ceremony titled “Terrifying, Strange and Beautiful”, to honor Live Unchained featured artists. How often is your work a collage of women you know and women you’ve imagined? Warsan means “good news” and Shire means “to gather in one place”. In “Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth”, she fills the vacant pages with haunting images of women’s bodies occupied by war and displacement. She remembers hearing this / from your uncle, then going to your bedroom and lying down on the floor. With fifty thousand Twitter followers and a similar number of Tumblr readers, Shire, more than most today, demonstrates the writing life of a young, prolific poet whose poetry or poem-like offhand thoughts will surface in one of your social media feeds and often be exactly what you needed to read, or what you didn’t know that you needed to read, at that moment. The poet Warsan Shire writes primarily about the immigrant experience, but also tweets about reality television. It’s a rare poet who can write movingly about African migration to Europe and also tweet humorously about the VH1 reality show “Love & Hip-Hop: Atlanta.” Every generation of writers and readers has mourned the shrinking place of poetry in our lives, and they may not be wrong. Well&Often is a publisher of fiction, short fiction, poetry, art books and literary anomalies. But it is a very constant. You’ve read your poems in South Africa, Italy, and Germany. DD : What is next in store for Warsan Shire?
The simultaneous specificity and breadth of her appeal, across gender, race, and nationality based on her self-professed fans, is remarkable, and it took me by surprise the first time I started following her online. Sometimes I have no actual idea where they have come from. It has strong references to Somali culture. Afething: What books do you recommend a book lover to read? Your names are Warsan Shire. Tumblr: www.warsanshire.tumblr.com/, * To Be Vulnerable and Fearless: An Interview with Writer Warsan Shire by Kameelah Janan Rasheed |http://bit.ly/UA2RQ1 *** Warsan Shire Tumblr | http://bit.ly/TLPXtV I’m bloated with language I can’t afford to forget.” (Conversations About Home (at the Deportation Centre), 2012).
Shire has said that she is most interested in writing about people whose stories are either not told or told inaccurately, especially immigrants and refugees, and so she brings out her Dictaphone when relatives come to her with tales from their experiences so that she can record them faithfully before turning them into poetry. Many of them are dead. Your first book “Teaching Mother How To Give Birth” published by Flipped Eye is on its way out. The former Amy Biehl Fulbright Scholar to South Africa is the co-founder of, To Be Vulnerable and Fearless: An Interview with Writer Warsan Shire, I Speak for Myself: American Women on Being Muslim.
In addition to your own writing, you have edited an issue of Sable LitMag. by Kameelah Janan Rasheed Warsan Shire. To a tumblr admirer, you once wrote about your love for Anais Nin: “…anais nin, one of my favourite writers since i was a nine year old reading her erotica by way of corridor light.” What drew you to Anais Nin’s work at such a young age. Who gave you these names?
Anais Nin just fell into my hands and it felt electric. Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. In response, Shire said: I’m from Somalia where there has been a war going on for my entire life.
But then I grew up and understood the power of a name, the beauty that comes in understanding how your name has affected who you are. The New Yorker may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers. I don’t ever remember not writing. I write when everyone is asleep. © Copyright 2013 | F. Scott Fitzgerald. I favorited it immediately. Apathy is making the world rot.
Warsan versus Melancholy. In an interview after she won the Brunel University African Poetry Prize, Warsan Shire was asked to talk about her sense of commitment to substance and urgent subject matter in her work. in Neo-Griot, HISTORY + AUDIO: Josephine Baker’s March On Washington Speech. How often does your poetry draw from your direct experiences?
I interviewed Safia a while back and she discussed how she became a poet noting that “it has been in her family”. In rereading a lot of your of your poems speak of loss, trauma, and loneliness. Like. They also may not be looking in the right places. Young poets are on Tumblr and Twitter, composing affecting and funny verse as short as a hundred and forty characters and also stretching much longer.
DD : We, at Diasporan Darlings, and those who count themselves as Warsan Shire groupies are inspired by your work, who inspires you? WS: I think in Somali, I cuss in Somali, when I’m afraid I reach for somali and this language is very rich, very filling. It rightly sits on many a bookshelf next to some of the greatest and most favourite authors.
My degree was incredibly useful in making sure that I would not become frightened and decide to become a hair dresser (I had always wanted to own a beauty salon, or be an archeologist).It allowed to me to study my craft, to embrace critique, to study the English language.
Sylvia Plath. I was very nervous.
Miranda July.
None have been imagined.
How old were you? My poems come to me in images, like film. I want to continue studying creative writing until PHD level. Your tumblr features poems under the umbrella of “Warsan vs. Melancholy”. Can you talk a bit about your experience in South Africa both in reading and exploring the country? I love writers who i relate to most. There is something about the work of Warsan … How did you become a poet? All rights reserved. The poems happen to me. What themes will this collection cover? Ultimately, I just want to love them. Her poetry evokes longing for home, a place to call home, and is often nostalgic for memories not her own, but for those of her parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts, people who forged her idea of her ancestral homeland through their own stories. Current track: Warsan Shire Interview Warsan Shire Interview.
It still does. Warsan Shire is a London-based Kenyan-born Somali writer whose world I first entered with a poem recalling the mouths of boys, the compromise of backseats, and bleeding skirts. Also, it’s not the kind of name you baby, slip into sweet talk mid sentence, late night phone conversation, whisper into the receiver kind of name, so, of that I am glad. I’m interested in collaborating with people who create beautiful things and their art reflects their heart. My father made sure I read everything I could get my hands on. Verse that is then reblogged and retweeted by thousands of followers who see themselves reflected in the posts. Hafiz. The title is very literal. Growing up, I absolutely wanted a name that was easier to pronounce, more common, prettier. My father is a writer. As long as I can give anyone comfort, I will. I just wanted to write.
Periodically, I will see tweets discovering a video of her reciting her most famous and viral poem, “For Women Who Are Difficult to Love,” which has become a self-affirmation mantra for lovelorn women online.
If I can help them through heartache with my poems or if they at least know that I love them absolutely, then they’ll have more than a lot of kids. My mother fell in love with and married a writer and secretly wrote poems everywhere.
It feels organic. Anais Nin.
**** www.liveunchained.com My name is indigenous to my country, it is not easy to pronounce, it takes effort to say correctly and I am absolutely in love with the sound of it and its meaning.
I like the idea of bringing together different art forms and show the fluidity that can be found in merging people and process. We need to care more. There was a problem playing this track.
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