Why Apetalous Poet?

Apetalous means, quite simply, “having no petals”.
As an Anglophone poet, a person who writes exclusively in English, it has been a literary struggle to find an audience in my Arabic-speaking society. So, like a flower with no petals, I do not truly belong in the east, nor the west. My roots are in Kuwait, but my voice has scattered in petals that have flown across oceans and skies, and have found a home in literary journals, presses, and award-winning publications in the west, leaving an Apetalous poet back home. My art reflects this junction at which I stand: East versus West; tradition versus modernism; patriarchal versus matriarchal socio-politics. Multi-cultural nuances emerge in my art and poetry, spanning generations, and challenging conformity.