I have been in New York just five months but I have already had an
emotional attachment to this city. This January I was in Manhattan and was met
again with simple things like the simple smiling of people and that was
wonderful. In my time at Columbia University I had taken the road to learn
about this place by luck with no program and no information. The magical
buildings with incredible spiritual aura that was written by Pro Ecclesia Dei.
I stumbled into the library with great esthetic; it was a blessing and I had a
rare sensation of gentleness. I said hello to Homer, Aristotle, Plato and
Cicero. I sat down in the corner near the entry and for hours I had
conversation with the statute of Athena; this atmosphere moved me so much. My
broken health, my broken life and broken career, there were all the broken
pieces of my life - like a prayer for new life in the new city, in New York
City.
Dr. Hiva Panahi is a contemporary independent academic &scholar, writer, poet, translator, of Kurdish descent, she was a fellow at the Mitterrand Foundation. She holds a Ph.D., in Political Social Sciences focusing on political sociology from Panteion University, Greece. As an author and poet, she has been distinguished internationally for her contribution to Classic Studies several times, her poetry included in various anthologies as well as Karen Van Dyke's Austerity Measures at NYRB.
Πέμπτη 25 Μαΐου 2017
Σάββατο 13 Μαΐου 2017
A woman’s little gripes, Hiva Panahi
Pleasant surprises may not be many but they
arrive as essential truths. They come to erase the traces of those weaklings who
blocked the flow of our lives. They come to give a potent end to the era of the
carnivores we happen to meet, who hurt us in the corners of our lives. Pleasant
surprises arise from pure logic, nesting in distant and nearby places.
They are slow to appear, but when they arrive they are light for the eyes.
Truly, in pure logos flourish the friendliest, most wise human thoughts. Truly logos is discovery. Beyond doubt the experience of truth is poetic, to fill space and time ....
05.12.2017,NYC
Τετάρτη 10 Μαΐου 2017
An letter from late great Kurdish thinker and poet Maaref Aghaei for Hiva Panahi
He wrote to me" Dear Hiva, your poetry style writing has a powerful feeling and a deep thought, I
praise these short poems with such great meaning. I received two of your
new poems and I hope we can publish them as soon is possible.
Please keep on writing!Forward for other poems from you
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