What We Carried: Fragments from the Cradle of Civilization is a project about leaving one’s homeland. Portland Photographer/Writer Jim Lommasson is currently photographing and interviewing Iraqi refugees and immigrants who have fled to the U.S. since 2000. This project dovetails with Lommasson’s visual and oral history of returning American soldiers from the Iraq and Afghanistan Wars called Exit Wounds.
“Beautiful” a poem by Nahshon Cook
“A Song of Peace” by Ayo Morakinyo
“The Long Now” a poem by Annmarie Sauer
Three poems by Mary Jean Chan.
“Hickory Tree” by Valentina Gnup
“One Percent Persecuted” a poem by Kate Padilla
“The Fallen” a poem by Luis “Junior” Jurado
“For the Fifty” a poem by Philip Metres
“Untitled Day #87” a audio submission by After Music Recordings
“Many Happy Returns!” a found poem by Melanie Graham