Momtaza Mehri
Momtaza Mehri is a poet and essayist. She is a co-winner of the 2018 Brunel International African Poetry Prize. She is the current Young People’s Laureate for London and a columnist-in-residence at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’s Open Space.
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In Conversation | The Online Edition
In Conversation
Momtaza Mehri & Warsan Shire
Momtaza Mehri and Warsan Shire talk about nineties London, parentification and diasporic inheritances.
In Conversation | The Online Edition
Podcast | Momtaza Mehri
Momtaza Mehri
We discuss her collection, Doing the Most with the Least, on the Granta Podcast.
‘don’t be / shocked when I say I was in prison you’re still in prison that’s / what this land means prison.’
Poetry | Issue 144
Though I Have Never Been to Ostia, I Have Seen the Place Where Our Dreams Died
Momtaza Mehri
‘like pasolini’s dream of an african oresteia let us be ridiculous’
Poetry | Issue 144
Biscotti Boys / On Men Who Wear Living as Loosely as Their Suits
Momtaza Mehri
‘salmaan the second son & his mama’s seventh seal by way of underwater & underemployment’
