We are thrilled to present Issue 15, Daaira, a luminous new edition of The Polyglot exploring wellness, ritual, and community healing through poetry, prose, song, and art.

Guest edited by Aaima Azhar and Zainab Azhar, founders of Daaira House, this issue has been curated to capture what is well and unwell within us all. Meaning circle in Urdu and Arabic, Daaira embodies the cyclical nature of healing through ritual and remembrance.

As the editors write, “The healing will come. Let us first call it what it is. Let us make for it a little space. Let us draw around it a circle. Let us piece it together, together. Name it in more words than one.”

We invite you to sit in this circle with us—to rest, reflect, and re-member alongside the artists and writers whose voices fill these pages. May Daaira offer you a moment of stillness, of recognition, and of return.

🌀 Price: $12 CAD for digital edition // $25 for print copy. Please e-transfer $25 to thepolyglotmagazine@gmail.com if you wish to reserve your copy for our launch event on October 18 in Edmonton at LitFest.

Contributors:
April Angeles
Tamara Aschenbrenner
Aaima Azhar
Muhammad Azhar
Zainab Azhar
The Calamansi Club
Leilei Chen 莫譯
Luciana Erregue-Sacchi
Ohona Anjum Jui
Niabi Kapoor
Maryam Lary
Yannis Lobaina
Khashayar Kess Mohammadi
Qudus Olanrewaju Ojikutu
Siham Salah
Silly (Illyana Cardinal)
Angeline Teoh Simon