for zainab
“today marks an entire year of living with this half-finished poem…” Weekend Poem, by Hira A.
Read MoreHira A is an editor, writer, feminist, and snob. She has strong opinions about issues that are usually of negligible interest to the rest of the world.
Poet of the Month: Hira A
“In fact, I think the only convincing, memorable female protagonist in Pakistani prose has been created by a man… Mohammed Hanif” Hira A, The Missing Slate’s Poet of the Month, talks to Ghausia Rashid Salam.
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the trials and tribulations of a well-endowed woman
“my breasts offend my father,/ more so than my opinions…” Poem of the Week (April 1st), by Hira A.
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