Poetic Witness and the Ethics of Speech in “Where Words Defeat Bullets” Katayoun Salmasi (Ph.D. in Theatre Studies from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) reviews Where Words Defeat Bullets: Poems for the Iranian People and Their 2026 Uprising (Asemana Books)

asemanamagazine.substack.com/p/poetic-wit... #Connors #poetry #review #start of #paragraph10 "Patrick Connors brings another kind of range. His poems create a wider political field shaped by democracy, exclusion, violence, and endurance."