“I’m tired of talking about war.”
When you survive something extreme, it never truly ends.
A collective trauma like war becomes woven into our bodies, our memories, our everyday lives.

That is why it is a privilege to say “war does not interest me,” while people in Bosnia and Hercegovina are still searching for their loved ones—30 years later.

Once war happens to you, every war becomes your war.
That is why we feel every oppression happening in the world today.

Guest: Selma Asotić, bilingual writer & poet

A Sarajevo-born, bilingual writer, Selma Asotić earned dual BA degrees in English Language and Literature and Comparative Literature from the University of Sarajevo, and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. She’s taught writing to undergraduates at BU and NYU, and ESL to adult learners in Bosnia and the US. Her first book of poetry was published in both Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in April 2022 and was awarded the prestigious Stjepan Gulin Prize in 2022 and the Štefica Cvek Prize in 2023. The English version, Say Fire, was released by Archipelago in 2025. She is currently pursuing a PhD in Comparative Literature at UMass Amherst.

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