Shurooq Amin

One great poet is Dr. Shurooq Amin from Kuwait. Her work in Diode issue 3.2 here is excellent, especially his great sense of place and language. She's got a great style--here's more of her work. Here's an excerpt from her "Chiseled Linen":

Sorceress,
you’ve been silenced for resilience earned,
feminine power scorned, chilled, carved
into marmoreal heritage—broom intact—
washed linen sullied by the stench
of rotting petroglyphs hidden in wadis;

roots gnarled into dusty marble,
dull as the dugong your mariner ancestors  [...]

Or from her piece "Voice":

Cloaked in     peacock-purple, back erect     against a canopied-life, cadaverous shade shelters your mute, limp braids and white-gloved hands,  [...]