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ማረፊያ ስንኞች
A collection of two-line poems — a meditation on memory, identity, and the spaces between words.
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Tererem — Pererem
Two madmen trade riddles across a courtyard table — silence, knowing, God, death, and a woman named Geni.
Culture & Memory · Members
Where Do I Go to Explode!
Everyone — lover, police, priest, lawyer — calmly tells him he is about to be killed. He never finds it strange enough.
Culture & Memory · Members
Who Is the So-and-So?
A man drinks alone, argues with himself about the woman across the bar, and stumbles into Tsegaye's old question.
Letters · Members
Don't You Ever Age?
On growing old, refusing to, and the friends who take your unchanged face as a personal insult.
Featured · Book
Ledesta — The Book
The collected reader essays of Ledesta — now available to read online.
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Culture & Memory
As I Interviewed Baalu
By
Dereje Desta
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May 21, 2026
Letters
Sebhat, not by choice
By
Dereje Desta
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May 14, 2026
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Tererem — Pererem
By
Dereje Desta
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June 23, 2026
Culture & Memory
Where Do I Go to Explode!
By
Dereje Desta
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June 20, 2026
Culture & Memory
Who Is the So-and-So?
By
Dereje Desta
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June 12, 2026
Letters
Don’t You Ever Age?
By
Dereje Desta
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June 12, 2026
Culture & Memory
A Thief and a Policeman (Police Station)
By
Dereje Desta
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May 28, 2026
Public Life
My Applause
By
Dereje Desta
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May 24, 2026
Letters
A Rose by Any Other Name
By
Dereje Desta
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May 23, 2026
Ideas
Bis, Bis — Play It Again
By
Dereje Desta
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May 21, 2026
Ideas
The Bed
By
Dereje Desta
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May 21, 2026
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