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Poet Esther Kamkar unspools the story about the snake and the garden.

"…wherever you are is called here," writes poet Esther Kamkar in this era of refugees and immigrations, "and you must treat it as a powerful/ stranger."

California poet Esther Kamkar speaks about Immigrants, refugees, their perilous conditions In a world of displacement.

The arrest and death of a young Iranian woman by the morality police prompts the poet Esther Kamkar to consider her exile from home.

Esther Kamkar’s prayer for the dead addresses the vast universality of war’s human tragedy.

Esther Kamkar writes political poetry indirectly, taking us back to the unforgettable images of the death of a child trying to cross the Rio Grande.

The experience of migration—whether refugee or voluntary—leaves the scar of uprootedness, as the Persian/American poet Esther Kamkar explains.

California poet Esther Kamkar’s “Undocumented” puts the great Wall debate in botanical perspective.

When a loan officer turned down the poet’s request, she sent him this poem. He changed his mind. Happy Mother’s Day.

"Even if the sea does not swallow you," writes the poet Esther Kamkar (herself a migrant to North America) about the experience of migration, "your heart will be broken."