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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.
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