I spoke to Nargis Shabbir Hassanli, we connected over a zoom poetry open mic. She is a 22 year old poet from Dar-es-salaam, Tanzania. She has a degree in Marketing and is a poet/writer . Hassanli started writing poetry in 2013 and picked up a pen one day to write her thoughts that she typically kept inside. Writing served as a way to express healing throughout her life In 2017 Nargis started to share her own writing via Instagram, she was inspired by others writing and considers her work a gift from God. Currently, you can read Nargis' poetry on her IG and access some poems as digital prints for sale. She hopes to create and facilitate her own writing workshops, self publish a poetry book , submit poems for publication, and get featured in the New York Times . In our conversation we talk about Nargis' experiences with poetry and promoting herself digitally while living in Tanzania. Find out more on Dreams Not Memes Podcast.
