Love Letters to Myself

through a series of poems, sahara i. mehdi expresses the earth-shattering experience of teenage love, heartbreak, and self-discovery. a combination of eloquence and exaggeration, her poetry is reminiscent of the soundtrack to your first love -- youthful and dramatic with the melancholic knowledge that it will end one day. in her debut work, mehdi reminds us that romantic love (however fleeting) is worth immortalizing in poetry, but the most important person to love is oneself.