women poets
The 'idol-breaker' of Iran: poet Forough Farrokhzad
She would be the first woman in the history of Persian literature to publish poems that spoke openly of women, sexuality, longings, and equality.
Love, rage, silence: Secret lives of Afghan female poets
With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love.
May 10, 2022
The 'idol-breaker' of Iran: poet Forough Farrokhzad
She would be the first woman in the history of Persian literature to publish poems that spoke openly of women, sexuality, longings, and equality.
February 17, 2016
Love, rage, silence: Secret lives of Afghan female poets
With her kohl-rimmed eyes cast down, Nadia lilts through a folk couplet before a secret assembly of women poets on a forbidden subject that often gets people killed in Afghanistan -- love.
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