''Poems for the Hazara'' ()() is a multilingual

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and a

collaborative poem Collaboration (from Latin ''com-'' "with" + ''laborare'' "to labor", "to work") is the process of two or more people, entities or organizations working together to complete a task or achieve a goal. Collaboration is similar to cooperation. Most ...

composed of the works of one hundred twenty five internationally recognized poets from sixty-eight countries. Poems in this book are in

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Hazaragi Hazaragi ( fa, , Həzārəgī; haz, , links=no, Āzərəgī) is an eastern dialect of Persian that is spoken by the Hazara people, primarily in the Hazarajat region of central Afghanistan, as well as other Hazara-populated areas of Afghanistan ...

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. All non-English poems have been translated into English. "Poems for the Hazara" includes the poetry anthology and a collaborative poem (

Collaborative poetry Collaborative or collective poetry is an alternative and creative technique for writing poetry by more than one person. The principal aim of collaborative poetry is to create poems with multiple collaborations from various authors. In a common examp ...

) featuring contributions from 23 international poets. An open letter from 354 celebrated poets including Nobel,

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, continental and national

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winners as well as presidents of

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, and writers associations from 97 countries is included at the end. This letter is addressed to world leaders in support of the

Hazara people The Hazaras ( fa, , Həzārə; haz, , Āzərə) are an ethnic group and the principal component of the population of Afghanistan, native to, and primarily residing in the Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region in central Afghanistan and generally scatte ...

. The executive editor is Hazara poet, journalist and

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Kamran Mir Hazar Kamran Mir Hazar (Persian language, Persian/ Dari/ Hazaragi:کامران میرهزار) (born 1976) is a Hazaras, Hazara Norwegian poet, journalist and human rights activist. He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Kabul Press and Refugee Face ...

Poets

* Etnairis Ribera, Puerto Rico *

Angelina Llongueras Angelina may refer to: Human names * Angelina (given name), a feminine given name *The feminine form of the family name Angelos People Entertainers *Angelina (American singer), American retired singer Angelina Camarillo Ramos (born 1976) *Angelin ...

, Catalonia * Aju Mukhopadhyay,

Pondicherry Pondicherry (), now known as Puducherry ( French: Pondichéry ʊdʊˈtʃɛɹi(listen), on-dicherry, is the capital and the most populous city of the Union Territory of Puducherry in India. The city is in the Puducherry district on the sout ...

, India * Ban'ya Natsuishi, Japan * Julio Pavanetti, Uruguay/ Spain * Gertrude Fester, Rwanda/South Africa *

Jack Hirschman Jack Hirschman (December 13, 1933 – August 22, 2021) was an American poet and social activist who wrote more than 100 volumes of poetry and essays. Biography Hirschman was born in New York City to a Russian Jewish family. He received a B.A. ...

, United States *

Iztok Osojnik Iztok Osojnik (born 27 July 1951) is a Slovene poet and essayist. Between 1997 and 2004 he was the director of the Vilenica International Literary Festival organized by the Slovene Writers' Association. Osojnik was born in Ljubljana in 1951. H ...

, Slovenia *

Erling Kittelsen Erling Kittelsen (born 10 April 1946) is a Norwegian poet, novelist, children's writer, playwright and translator. He made his literary debut in 1970 with the poetry collection ''Ville fugler''. Kittelsen was part of the poetic action group "Stun ...

, Norway * Obediah Michael Smith, Bahamas * Bina Sarkar Ellias, India * Raúl Henao, Colombia *

Anne Waldman Anne Waldman (born April 2, 1945) is an American poet. Since the 1960s, Waldman has been an active member of the Outrider experimental poetry community as a writer, performer, collaborator, professor, editor, scholar, and cultural/political activ ...

, United States * Nguyen Quang Thieu, Vietnam * Timo Berger, Germany * Elsa Tió, Puerto Rico *

Hazaristan Hazaristan ( fa, هزارستان, Hazāristān), or Hazarajat ( fa, هزاره‌جات, Hazārajāt) is a mostly mountainous region in the central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Koh-i-Baba mountains in the western extremities of the Hi ...

* Rodrigo Verdugo, Chile *

Mildred Kiconco Barya Mildred Kiconco Barya is a writer and poet from Uganda. She was awarded the 2008 Pan African Literary Forum Prize for Africana Fiction, and earlier gained recognition for her poetry, particularly her first two collections, ''Men Love Chocolates ...

, Uganda * Stefaan Van Den Bremt, Flanders, Belgium * Winston Morales Chavarro, Colombia * Esteban Valdés Arzate, Mexico * Akwasi Aidoo, Ghana/United States * Yolanda Pantin, Venezuela * Yiorgos Chouliaras, Greece * James O'Hara, Mexico, United States and Ireland *

Raquel Chalfi Raquel Chalfi (Hebrew: רחל חלפי) is an Israeli poet. Biography Raquel (Rachel) Chalfi was born in Tel Aviv, where she lives and works. Her mother was the sculptor and poet Miriam Chalfi and her uncle was the poet and actor Avraham Chalfi. ...

, Israel *

Jim Byron Jim Byron was an American publicist known for working with female models and actresses during the 1950s and 1960s, including Jayne Mansfield and Yvette Mimieux. Prior to working with actresses, Jim Byron worked as a promoter for the West Hollywood ...

, United States * Luisa Vicioso Sánchez, Dominican Republic *

Andrea Garbin Andrea Garbin (born March 22, 1976) is an Italian poet. He was born in Castel Goffredo, Brescia, Italy. Career Garbin began writing short stories and poems at the beginning of the 1990s. Between 2007 and 2008, he participated in the reading an ...

, Italy * Luz Helena Cordero Villamizar, Colombia * Peter Voelker, Germany * Zoran Anchevski, Macedonia * Naotaka Uematsu, Japan * Paul Disnard, Colombia * Vyacheslav Kupriyanov, Russia *

Gabriel Rosenstock Gabriel Rosenstock (born 29 September 1949) is an Irish writer who works chiefly in the Irish language. A member of Aosdána, he is poet, playwright, haikuist, tankaist, essayist, and author/translator of over 180 books, mostly in Irish. Born in ...

, Ireland * Maruja Vieira, Colombia * Nyein Way, Myanmar * Gaston Bellemare,

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* Zohra Hamid, South Africa *

Amir Or Amir Or (אמיר אור) (born 1956), is an Israeli poet, novelist, and essayist whose works have been published in 45 languages. Levin, Lynn, "Israeli Poet Amir Or: A Conversation About Language, Myth, and the Soul" at the "Poetry Life and Times" ...

, Israel * Ivan Djeparoski, Macedonia * Attila F. Balázs, Slovakia * Ioana Trica, Romania * Michaël Glück, France * Quito Nicolaas, Netherlands * Noria Adel, Algeria * Francisco Sánchez Jiménez, Colombia *

Werewere Liking Werewere Liking (born 1950, in Cameroon) is a writer, playwright and performer based in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. She established the Ki-Yi Mbock theatre troupe in 1980 and founded the Ki-Yi village in 1985 for the artistic education of young pe ...

, Cameroon/Ivory Coast *

Beppe Costa Beppe Costa (born Concetto Costa, on , Catania, Italy) is an Italian poet, novelist and publisher. Biography The beginning Born into a poor family grows, however, in an environment rich in books. He published the first volume of poems in 19 ...

, Italy * William Pérez Vega, Puerto Rico * Fanny Moreno, Colombia * John Curl, United States *

Kevin Kiely Kevin Kiely is an Irish politician and former Mayor of Limerick from 2009–10. He was made a Peace Commissioner in 1983 by the then Fine Gael Minister for Justice, Michael Noonan. He is a member of Fine Gael. Career in politics He was first e ...

, Ireland * Azam Abidov, Uzbekistan * Luis Galar (No Country) * Santiago B. Villafania, Philippines * Althea Romeo-Mark,

Antigua Antigua ( ), also known as Waladli or Wadadli by the native population, is an island in the Lesser Antilles. It is one of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region and the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua and Bar ...

* Bengt Berg, Sweden * Luz Lescure, Panama * Lola Koundakjian, Armenia *

Zindzi Mandela Zindziswa "Zindzi" Mandela (23 December 196013 July 2020), also known as Zindzi Mandela-Hlongwane, was a South African diplomat and poet, and the daughter of anti-apartheid activists and politicians Nelson Mandela and Winnie Madikizela-Mandela. ...

, South Africa * Edvino Ugolini, Italy * Jean-Claude Awono, Cameroon *

Stefania Battistella ''Stefania'' is a genus of frogs in the family Hemiphractidae. They are native to the highlands of the Guiana Shield in southern Venezuela, Guyana, and adjacent far northern Brazil. Most are restricted to the tepui highlands, but '' S. evansi'' ...

, Italy * Eugenia Sánchez Nieto, Colombia * Alina Beatrice Chesca, Romania * Simón Zavala Guzmán, Ecuador * Ostap Nozhak, Ukraine * Berry Heart, Botswana * Gilma De Los Ríos, Colombia * Laura Hernandez Muñoz, México *

Mamang Dai Mamang Dai is an Indian poet, novelist and journalist based in Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh. She received Sahitya Academi Award in 2017 for her novel ''The Black Hill''. Life Mamang Dai was born on 23 February 1957 at Pasighat, East Siang dis ...

, India * Erkut Tokman, Turkey * Álvaro Miranda, Colombia * Claus Ankersen, Denmark * Mark Lipman, United States *

John Hegley John Richard Hegley (born 1 October 1953) is an English performance poet, comedian, musician and songwriter. Early life He was born in the Newington Green area of Islington, London, England, into a Roman Catholic household. He was brought up i ...

, England *

Micere Githae Mugo Micere Githae Mugo (born Madeleine Micere Githae in 1942) is a playwright, author, activist, instructor and poet from Kenya. She is a literary critic and professor of literature in the Department of African American Studies at Syracuse Univers ...

, Kenya * Germain Droogenbroodt, Belgium/Spain * Fiyinfoluwa Onarinde, Nigeria *

Ataol Behramoğlu Ataol Behramoğlu (born April 13, 1942) is a prominent Turkish poet, author, and Russian-into-Turkish literary translator. Life Ataol Behramoğlu was born on April 13, 1942 in Istanbul. He wrote poems in honour of his father Hikmet Bahramoglu, ...

, Turkey *

Khal Torabully Khal Torabully is a Mauritian poet. Born in Mauritius in 1956, in the capital city Port Louis, his father was a Trinidadian sailor and his mother was a descendant of migrants from India and Malaya. Work Khal Torabully left for Lyon in 1976, t ...

, Mauritius/France * Jorge Boccanera, Argentina * Kama Sywor Kamanda,

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* Bineesh Puthuppanam, India * Iris Miranda, Puerto Rico * Pamela Ateka, Kenya * Fahredin Shehu, Kosovo * Tamer Öncul, Cyprus *

Tânia Tomé Tânia Tomé (born 1981) is a Mozambican public speaker, entrepreneur,Tv Personality and author. She is also singer, songwritter and performer and releases music under the name Queentanisha. Early life and education Born in Mozambique, Tomé ...

, Mozambique *

Howard A. Fergus Sir Howard Archibald Fergus (born 22 July 1937) is a Montserratian author and historian. He was born at Long Ground in Montserrat. He attended Bethel Primary School, Montserrat Secondary School, Erdiston Teachers College in Barbados, the Univers ...

Montserrat Montserrat ( ) is a British Overseas Territories, British Overseas Territory in the Caribbean. It is part of the Leeward Islands, the northern portion of the Lesser Antilles chain of the West Indies. Montserrat is about long and wide, with r ...

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Janak Sapkota Janak Sapkota ( ne, जनक सापकोटा; born 1987) is a Nepalese haiku poet who works mainly in the English language. He is based in Finland. Sapkota's books include ''Long Days of Rain'' (2016). His haiku have appeared internationall ...

, Nepal * Károly Fellinger, Hungary * Alfred Tembo, Zambia * Emilce Strucchi, Argentina * Juan Diego Tamayo, Colombia * Manuel Silva Acevedo, Chile * Elias Letelier, Chile *

Mohammed Bennis Mohammed Bennis ( ar, محمد بنيس; born 1948) is a Moroccan poet and one of the most prominent writers of modern Arabic poetry. Since the 1970s, he has enjoyed a particular status within Arab culture. Muhsin J al-Musawi states that "Bennis� ...

, Morocco * Károly Sándor Pallai, Hungary * Edgardo Nieves-Mieles, Puerto Rico * Fatoumata Ba, Mali * Vupenyu Otis Zvoushe, Zimbabwe * Santosh Alex, India * Silvana Berki, Albania/Finland * Hussein Habasch,

Kurdistan Kurdistan ( ku, کوردستان ,Kurdistan ; lit. "land of the Kurds") or Greater Kurdistan is a roughly defined geo-cultural territory in Western Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, Kurdish la ...

, Syria * Lucy Cristina Chau,

Panamá Panama ( , ; es, link=no, Panamá ), officially the Republic of Panama ( es, República de Panamá), is a transcontinental country spanning the southern part of North America and the northern part of South America. It is bordered by Cost ...

* Jessie Kleemann, Greenland * Siki Dlanga, South Africa * Irena Matijašević, Croatia * Boel Schenlaer, Sweden * Merlie M. Alunan, Philippines * Ernesto P. Santiago, Philippines * Rassool Snyman, South Africa * Mary Smith, Scotland *

K. Satchidanandan K. Satchidanandan (1946) is an Indian poet and critic, writing in Malayalam and English. A pioneer of modern poetry in Malayalam, a bilingual literary critic, playwright, editor, columnist and translator, he is the former editor of ''Indian L ...

, India *

Sukrita Paul Kumar Sukrita Paul Kumar is an Indian poet, critic, and academician. She has been the chief editor of ''Cultural Diversity, Linguistic Plurality and Literary Traditions of India -'' a textbook prescribed by the University of Delhi for course use in its ...

, India *

Birgitta Jónsdóttir Birgitta Jónsdóttir (born 17 April 1967) is an Icelandic politician, anarchist, poet, and activist. She was a Member of the Althing (MP) for the Southwest Constituency from 2013 to 2017, representing the Pirate Party, having been elected at th ...

, Iceland * Zelma White,

British West Indies The British West Indies (BWI) were colonized British territories in the West Indies: Anguilla, the Cayman Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands, Montserrat, the British Virgin Islands, Antigua and Barbuda, The Bahamas, Barbados, Dominica, Grena ...

* Navkirat Sodhi, India * Gémino H. Abad, Philippines * Mbizo Chirasha, Zimbabwe * Joyce Ashuntantang, Cameroon/ United States

Cover

Photograph of

Buddha Siddhartha Gautama, most commonly referred to as the Buddha, was a śramaṇa, wandering ascetic and religious teacher who lived in South Asia during the 6th or 5th century BCE and founded Buddhism. According to Buddhist tradition, he was ...

Bamiyan Bamyan or Bamyan Valley (); ( prs, بامیان) also spelled Bamiyan or Bamian is the capital of Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan. Its population of approximately 70,000 people makes it the largest city in Hazarajat. Bamyan is at an alti ...

, courtesy of Najibullah Mosafer.

proposed the

flag of Hazaristan The Flag of Hazaristan (Persian : پرچم هزارستان ) is known as the national flag of the Hazara people. It includes three colors: yellow, white and blue. It was originally proposed and presented on the cover of the anthology ''Poems fo ...

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Official website of the poets world-wide supporting the Hazara
* {{Official website, URL=http://www.fullpagepublishing.com/?p=170, Full Page Publishing official website
Poems for the Hazara – Poets and Readers/ Photo Album
2014 poetry books Poetry anthologies Collaborative poetry * Hazara people-related books Hazarajat