Banoo Zan – CAROUSEL

Poem

Reading Queer in the GTA (5)

Staff June 25, 2020 Banoo Zan CAROUSEL CAROUSEL 42 CAROUSEL 42 GTA poetry queer Toronto

BÄNOO ZAN The Land of Orange Blossoms * You journey to me I circle your squarelike a pilgrim farewellto Kaaba Your womenin farmers’ market sell me herbs of memoryin floral dresses I’m a babyat their breasts drinking the milk of blood letting go of water Your mentoil in fields ofabundance…

Special Project

LGBTQA+GTA

Jade Wallace June 22, 2020 Banoo Zan CAROUSEL CAROUSEL 42 CAROUSEL 42 GTA Jade Wallace Kamila Rina Khashayar Mohammadi Kirby poetry queer Tanis Franco Toronto

In 2019, CAROUSEL interviewed five writers whose origins spanned the globe, whose ages straddled generations, whose writing practices crossed genres and genders, but who were all akin insofar as they were then at work making queer poetry in the GTA. The essay based on those interviews appeared in full in…