Menstruation
Müesser Yeniay
Postfeminismus
Silence becomes word
drop by drop
I am a woman, a poet
in this nothingness
that batters my body
egg that leaves my womb
every month
has a legend
in my body
it has a trace
my womanhood
my Achilles toe
my dog that barks every month
a man can't be a poet
a man can be a pen for a poet
Silence becomes word
drop by drop
I am a woman, a poet
in this nothingness
that batters my body
egg that leaves my womb
every month
has a legend
in my body
it has a trace
my womanhood
my Achilles toe
my dog that barks every month
a man can't be a poet
a man can be a pen for a poet
Listen to Müesser read the poem here:
About the author
Müesser Yeniay was born in İzmir in 1984 and graduated from Ege University with a degree in English Language and Literature. She has won several prizes in Turkey. Her books are Darkness Also Falls Ground (2009), I Founded My Home in the Mountains (translation), I Drew the Sky Again (2011), The Other Consciousness: Surrealism and The Second New (2013), and Before Me There Were Deserts (2014). She published Contemporary Spanish Anthology with Metin Cengiz and Jaime B. Rosa, and she has translated the poetry of Ronny Someck (2014), Attila F. Balazs (2015), and Vietnamese poets Mai Van Phan and Nguyễn Quang Thiều (2015). Her poems were published in Hungarian by AB-Art Press as A Rozsaszedes Szertartasa (2015). In the United States, her poems were published by CC. Marimbo Press with an introduction by activist poet Jack Hirschman (2015). In Vietnam, her poetry collection Nghi le Hai Hoa Hong Trong Vuon was published by Vietnam Writers Association both in English and Vietnamese (2015). In 2015, she was a writer resident in OMI arts center, Ledig House in New York. Müesser is the editor of the literature magazine Şiirden (of Poetry). She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Turkish literature at Bilkent University, Ankara, and is also a member of PEN and the Writers Syndicate of Turkey.