Fatima Zahra Bennis

The poet is an active member of the Society of Friends of Lorca; the Union of Moroccan Writers, where she holds the position of counselor in charge of festival coordination; and the League of Arab Creative Writers. Bennis has participated in international cultural events including the Mediterranean Women Poets Forum, Algeciras, Spain, 2008, the Arab Poetry Festival, Alsuwayda, Syria, 2010, as well as festivals in Seville, Spain, in 2012, the Jarash Festival for Culture and Arts, in Jordan, in 2013, and poetry festivals in Malaysia, in 2013, and Romania, in 2015. The poems in this issue of PIW are taken from her most recent book, On the Edge of a Fleeting Life:

I recall only a blooming garden
A soil that couldn’t have enough of my running
And a sun that conspired with my lying
I remember only Virginia Woolf’s room
A lesson on love
And another lesson on madness.          
                                                        
                                                           ‘Forgetting’ BOOKS
Law’atu al Hurub/The Anguish of Escape, Matbaat Chouikh, Tetouan, Morocco, 2004.
Bayna Dira’ay Qamar/In the Arms of a Moon, Malamih, Cairo, Egypt, 2008.
Taifu Nabee/The Spectre of a Prophet, al Ghaoun, Beirut, Lebanon, 2011.
‘Ala Hafati ‘umrin Harib/On the Edge of a Fleeting Life, Dar El Badaoui, Tunis, Tunisia, 2016.

LINKS
Video a reading
In Spanish
Crear en Salamanca 2017
Luz Cultural magazine 2015