PRAGOTI

In his elegy 'For the Union Dead', the 20th Century American poet Robert Lowell raised from their mass graves the black soldiers who died in battle against slavery.

Two poems by the great Turkish poet Nazim Hikmet, 'Some Advice To Those Who Will Spend Time in Prison' and 'On Living', show us that life, for all its grief, is the most beautiful thing. It should be lived for humanity and for the future.

This poem is written by 36-years-old Weam Namou, who was born as a minority Christian in Baghdad, Iraq. She is the author of two books, The Feminine Art and The Mismatched Braid.