Jazra Khaleed

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Sprache: griechisch

Übersetzungen: deutsch (MENSES), serbisch (MENZISI)

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Μου λες:
«Στις ωοθήκες μου κρύβω
ρήματα,
γωνίες,
γλώσσες που στάζουν σπέρμα»
Εγώ κόβω τον κύκλο σου κάθετα,
γράφω ρίμες που μυρίζουν αίμα
Δε φτύνω ποίηση του δρόμου,
γεννάω λέξεις εραστές που ματώνουν
με το πέρασμα του χρόνου
Μαζί σου ζω την ποίηση σαν έμμηνη ρήση
Μετρώ τους στίχους σε φεγγάρια
Τα βράδια με πανσέληνο γράφω στα σκοτάδια
Την άμπωτη προσμένω λέξεις να γεννήσει
Το έμβολο εν κινήσει,
τραβήξου πριν ο στίχος χύσει,
πριν γίνει αρσενικός

Όταν εσύ ματώνεις, εγώ δε βγαίνω για κυνήγι
Την ώρα που στρατιώτες σκοτώνουνε παιδιά
στα έμμηνα βουτώ της γλώσσας το λεπίδι

Jazra Khaleed

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* 21.05.1979, Russische Föderation
lebt in: Athens, Griechenland

Jazra Khaleed (pen name) is a poet, filmmaker, performer and translator. He lives in Athens and writes exclusively in Greek. His works are an indictment of fascism, social injustice, police brutality, and racism in contemporary Greece.

His most recent publications are Requiem für Homs (parasitenpresse, Germany, 2022), Requiem pour Homs et autres poèmes (Marges en Pages, France, 2022), The Light That Burns Us (World Poetry Books, USA, 2021) and μα είν' αυτό ποίηση; (Teflon Books, Greece, 2020). His poems have been widely translated for publications in Europe, the US, Australia, and Asia, and have appeared in The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, World Literature Today, Lichtungen, Modern Poetry in Translation, Glänta, Die Horen and other publications.

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According to The Los Angeles Review of Books, “[Jazra Khaleed] stands up to fascism by writing and performing Greek-language poetry that is unmatched in technical bravura, emotional depth, and political urgency". His performances have been described as “possessing the kind of energy that pervades the riots on the streets of Athens” (Süddeutsche Zeitung), “explosive” (Berliner Zeitung) and “wild, energetic and forceful” (junge Welt).

He has won the Soundout! Award for New Ways of Presenting Literature (Germany) and the Crystal Vilenica Prize (Slovenia) and has been awarded residences and fellowships from the Federal Chancellery of Austria, the Kone Foundation (Finland), the Robert Bosch Stiftung (Germany), the International Writer’s House Graz (Austria), the Syros International Film Festival (Greece) and Centrale Fies (Italy).

As a founding editor of the Athens-based poetry magazine Teflon, and particularly through his own translations published there, he has introduced to a Greek readership the works of Amiri Baraka, Keston Sutherland, Etel Adnan, Bert Papenfuß, Safia Elhillo, Ann Cotten, Lionel Fogarty, Audre Lorde, Ghayath Almadhoun among many other American, British, Australian, Arab and German-language political and experimental poets.

His short films have been screened at festivals such as the Ann Arbor Film Festival (USA), Experiments in Cinema (USA), Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Switzerland), Kasseler Dokfest (Germany), Biennial de la Imagen en Movimiento (Argentina), Entrevues Belfort (France), L’Alternativa (Spain), Cooler Lumpur Festival (Malaysia) among others. The film rendition of his poem about the immigrant situation, “The Aegean or the Anus of Death,” won prizes at the Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema, the Zebra Poetry Film Festival, and the Balkans Beyond Borders Short Film Festival.

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