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Yasmin Elbouch

Yasmin Elbouch is a Lebanese-Australian poet. She uses poetry to encapsulate the journey to defining one’s identity by reclaiming ethnicity, culture and race. Our connection with our heritage can often be fragmented. Yasmin seeks to heal this fragmentation through the use of metaphoric devices and aims to show that there is space for who you are and where you come from.

Tayta’s House

Tayta’s house is like a second home, A second mother. We play our games on the Persian rug That is saturated in patterns, it is made from wool but is coarse against our bodies, And for this reason, we are …

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Kusa Mahshi

Spending the afternoon hallowing out the inside of a zucchini, Piercing its jaundice flesh Calling it by its name Telling it, “It’s time to leave your home, what you were born into.” “It’s time to make room for Something else, …

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