If you think one of my poems is
about the taste of a hot dog, you’re
right, if you think one of them is
about god and the devil switching
places, you’re right, my literary
world exists to understand you.
Jihad Yassine is an aspiring young poet who has now published his second collection of poetry. He wrote it to give people a place to go where there was no expectation to understand what was written.
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A Story Factory, Year of Poetry publication.
Year of Poetry is one of Story Factory’s most intensive programs. Throughout 2021, a committed group of young writers came to workshops every Thursday afternoon – first at Story Factory in Parramatta; then, when the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic hit, over Discord. Through these and many other disruptions, the young people in this program continued to write and support each other. This chapbook was written as part of that project.
This project was supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund.