''Poems for the Hazara'' is a multilingual

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and a collaborative poem composed of the works of one hundred twenty five internationally recognized poets from sixty-eight countries. Poems in this book are in English,

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, Catalan,

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, Norwegian, Turkish,

Hazaragi Hazaragi (; ) is an eastern Persian dialects, dialect and Persian varieties, variety of the Persian language that is spoken by the Hazara people. Classification Hazaragi is a member of the Iranian languages, Iranian branch of the Indo-Europea ...

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, Irish,

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, French,

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, Hungarian and Portuguese. All non-English poems have been translated into English. "Poems for the Hazara" includes the poetry anthology and a collaborative poem ( Collaborative poetry) featuring contributions from 23 international poets. An open letter from 354 celebrated poets including Nobel, Pulitzer, continental and national

literary prize A literary award or literary prize is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work. It is normally presented to an author. Organizations Most literary awards come with a corresponding award ceremony. Man ...

winners as well as presidents of PEN clubs, 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 (; ) are an ethnic group and a principal component of Afghanistan’s population. They are one of the largest ethnic groups in Afghanistan, primarily residing in the Hazaristan (Hazarajat) region in central Afghanistan. Hazaras ...

. The executive editor is Hazara poet, journalist and

human rights activist A human rights defender or human rights activist is a person who, individually or with others, acts to promote or protect human rights. They can be journalists, environmentalists, whistleblowers, trade unionists, lawyers, teachers, housing campai ...

, Kamran Mir Hazar.

Poets

* Etnairis Ribera, Puerto Rico * Angelina Llongueras, Catalonia * Aju Mukhopadhyay,

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, 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. Early life and education Hirschman was born on December 13, 1933, in New York City, into a ...

, United States * Iztok Osojnik, Slovenia *

Erling Kittelsen Erling Kittelsen (born 10 April 1946, Vennesla) 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 ...

, 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 acti ...

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

Hazarajat Hazarajat (), also known as Hazaristan () is a mostly mountainous region in the central Afghan highlands, central highlands of Afghanistan, among the Kuh-e Baba mountains in the western extremities of the Hindu Kush. It is the homeland of the H ...

, Afghanistan * Rodrigo Verdugo, Chile * Mildred Kiconco Barya, 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, Israel * Jim Byron, United States * Luisa Vicioso Sánchez, Dominican Republic * Andrea Garbin, Italy * Luz Helena Cordero Villamizar, Colombia * Peter Voelker, Germany * Zoran Anchevski, Macedonia * Naotaka Uematsu, Japan * Paul Disnard, Colombia * Vyacheslav Kupriyanov, Russia * Gabriel Rosenstock, Ireland * Maruja Vieira, Colombia * Nyein Way, Myanmar * Gaston Bellemare,

Quebec Quebec is Canada's List of Canadian provinces and territories by area, largest province by area. Located in Central Canada, the province shares borders with the provinces of Ontario to the west, Newfoundland and Labrador to the northeast, ...

* Zohra Hamid, South Africa *

Amir Or Amir Or (; born 1956), is an Israelis, Israeli poet, novelist, and essayist whose works have been published in more than 50 languages. Levin, Lynn, "Israeli Poet Amir Or: A Conversation About Language, Myth, and the Soul" at the "Poetry Life and Ti ...

, 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 peo ...

, Cameroon/Ivory Coast * Beppe Costa, Italy * William Pérez Vega, Puerto Rico * Fanny Moreno, Colombia * John Curl, United States * Kevin Kiely, 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 local population, is an island in the Lesser Antilles. It is one of the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region and the most populous island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua ...

* 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, 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, Mexico * Mamang Dai, 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. He has a reputation for wry and surreal humour, mostly performance-oriented or designed for younger audiences, and often sung or acc ...

, England * Micere Githae Mugo, 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, 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, Mozambique * Howard A. Fergus,

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* Janak Sapkota, Nepal *

Károly Fellinger Károly Fellinger (born 1963) is a Hungarian poet, writer, local historian living in Slovakia. Life and works Born in Bratislava, Károly Fellinger lives in Jelka since his childhood. During his high school years in the Hungarian Academic Gra ...

, Hungary * Alfred Tembo, Zambia * Emilce Strucchi, Argentina * Juan Diego Tamayo, Colombia * Manuel Silva Acevedo, Chile * Elias Letelier, Chile * Mohammed 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 (, ; ), or Greater Kurdistan, is a roughly defined geo- cultural region in West Asia wherein the Kurds form a prominent majority population and the Kurdish culture, languages, and national identity have historically been based. G ...

, Syria * Lucy Cristina Chau,

Panama Panama, officially the Republic of Panama, is a country in Latin America at the southern end of Central America, bordering South America. It is bordered by Costa Rica to the west, Colombia to the southeast, the Caribbean Sea to the north, and ...

Jessie Kleemann Marie Jessie Kleemann née Jensine Marie Kristensen (born 1959) is a Greenlandic artist and writer. Educated both as an actor and a graphic artist, from 1984 to 1991 she headed Greenland's College of Art in Nuuk. Now recognized principally as a pe ...

, 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, India * Sukrita Paul Kumar, 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 t ...

, Iceland * Zelma White,

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

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

Bamiyan Bamyan (), also spelled Bamian or Bamiyan, is the capital of Bamyan Province in central Afghanistan. Its population of approximately 100,000 people makes it the largest city in Hazarajat. Bamyan is at an altitude of about above sea level. The ...

, courtesy of Najibullah Mosafer. Kamran Mir Hazar proposed the flag of Hazaristan.

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Poems for the Hazara on Amazon (Paperback)

Poems for the Hazara on Amazon (Hardcover)

Official website of the poets world-wide supporting the Hazara
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Poems for the Hazara – Poets and Readers/ Photo Album
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