A review of Siwar Masannat’s ‘cue’
From left to right: the cover of “cue,” Siwar Masannat.
Siwar Masannat is a Jordanian writer, poet, educator, and editor currently based in Milwaukee. cue, Masannat’s second book of poetry, emerges from her engagement with Akram Zaatari’s project Hashem El Madani: Studio Practices, which brought El Madani’s compelling photographs of community members in Saida, Lebanon, to a global audience.
cue
Siwar Masannat
University of Georgia Press 2024, 82 pages, $19.95, ISBN 9780820365978
Currency
Juan Carlos Flores traffics in poems, written as well as performed. They are his currency.
As do writers in most places, Juan Carlos Flores expresses an occasional preference for actual currency to be his currency. But there it is.