Poetry Pause - The League of Canadian Poets
Poetry Pause - The League of Canadian Poets
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March 15, 2025
I am honoured to see my piece "The Poet" is featured on Poetry Pause, the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch.
Read "The Poet" here.
The Pi Review
The Pi Review
December 12, 2024
My poem "غم is dissonant" found a home in "The Pi Review", thanks to John Whittaker.
Read the poem here.
LOFT Books Publishing
LOFT Books Publishing
January 9, 2023
I am honored to announce that my poem "Crossing" has been "highly commended" in the Fourth Issue of Loft Books, edited by Claire Cronin.
Sam Cardy the managing editor of Issue IV has reviewed my poem in the introduction as follows:
"Saba Pakdel’s poem ‘Crossing’ is an entrancing meditation on the borders that define us. This is done through a racial lens, with the speaker lamenting the sacrifices necessitated by venturing beyond one’s native land, people who are ‘shedding illegality off [their] skin’ in an attempt to belong. The poem opens with the suggestion that ‘home is a motion / a wave’ — an idea which, itself, moves through the ‘imagined space’ of the poem, rising once more in the third stanza: ‘home is a moment, I could’ve said.’ The shift is subtle. Time and space collide and the truth of impermanence shines through. Our Highly Commended poem, and thoroughly deserved."
You can download Loft Issue IV here.
roots: a poem
roots: a poem
October 27, 2022
My poem "roots," written in solidarity with the movement "Woman, Life, Freedom," has been published at periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics edited and lovingly maintained by rob mclennan.
Read it here.
Bloomsday 2022
Bloomsday 2022
June 16, 2022
On Bloomsday 2022, I read my poem “Mo[u]rning Molly: Absence Re-Imagined. Chapter 18 of Ulysses in Poetry” at a Bloomsday celebration hosted by University of Victoria in Coast Victoria Hotel. The poem is featured on Poetry in Canada online bookshelf here.
Photo by Kevin Tunnicliffe
In Her Memory
In Her Memory
National Poetry Month
National Poetry Month
August 8, 2022
"Waked"
CHAUDIERE BOOKS Ottawa's Most Beloved Literary Publisher (2006-2017), posting A Month's Worth of Poems Every April for National Poetry Month, published "Waked" by Saba Pakdel.
Read it here.
Spotlight series #72
Spotlight series #72
April 4, 2022
"Un-"
Curated by Canadian writer, editor and publisher rob mclennan, the “spotlight” series appears the first Monday of every month.
Un-statement:
Memory — a simultaneously shared and solitary phenomenon — is partly composed of a collective experience of being and partly of an individual’s unique perspective. The murky line that distinguishes the two is where this poem resides. “I am archive” echoes a generational experience of being layered into an “I” who’s re-reliving it in a populous loneliness. The “baby” that is inside “me” is, in an existential moment, a “baby me” reimagined in a matryoshka body. On that note, memory is genderless, so is giving birth to its existence. Thus, “Un-” is fluid in its attempt to prefix what you imagine it to be.
Read it here.
Three Poems
Three Poems
August 2, 2021
"Cherry City," "#176," and "Zero"
periodicities: a journal of poetry and poetics edited and lovingly maintained by rob mclennan
Read them here.
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