Momtaza Mehri

On I May Destroy You, Authorial Selves & Regimes of Relatability

The poet Diane di Prima died at the age of 86 on the 25th October. A celebrated writer and political activist, her work included the much-celebrated Revolutionary Letters. Here, Momtaza Mehri reflects on di Prima's work and legacy.

On miasmic history, Arabic art and the possibility of a common language. For The Poetry Review.

Manchester Writing Competition 2019 Winning Poems.

How should we respond to the moral panic generated by the current wave of youth crime? How does it feel to live in a world where that's normal?

POETRY (April, 2019).

On M.I.A.’s legacy as an infuriatingly internationalist icon, political blackness and the artistic practice of surviving refugehood.

My Best Of 2018 pick for Artforum (Wendy Trevino's Cruel Fiction).

The World Cup in Bleus.

On Arab pop, Saudi princes, soft power and the scam that is pan-Arab media.

On the time-travelling poetics of Vince Staples, Moor Mother, South African art and what we leave behind to get ahead.

On resilience, noise and the networked feminisms of #MeToo + beyond.

Perhaps we need to face the terrifying and overwhelming possibility that there are no models, that we shall have to create from scratch.
— Toni Cade Bambara, On The Issue of Roles (1969)

First column as Columnist-in-Residence for San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's Open Space. On Pasolini, Kanye, Azealia Banks and our own degrees of separation from artists vs their art.