Kushtrim Thaqi was born in Prizren, Kosovo, in 1989. He has been writing poetry for about 7 years now, and has been part of a few international anthologies, such as Balkan Writers Projects and has also organized an international poetry festival in Prizren, Kosovo, called 50 Poems for Snow in the year 2017. Poetry for him is the expression of what is underneath, what hides beneath the fingernails and is found only buried under the hushed sounds of whispers. Nothing grand, nothing big; Just whispers…