poet & artist • queer & liminal • i teach @ bryn mawr college , make home in philadelphia, miss home in bangalore • i'm barely on here, find more at:
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I have two new poems in Virginia Quarterly Review’s Winter issue. Wagging my tail. These poems have meant a lot to me across the distances I carry and the loss they demand. Gratitude to the editors, and to you if you pause to read, share, feel.
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Ok but why was I yesterday years old when I found out that Etel Adnan wrote her own Letter to a Young Poet?? Read this last night & ngl kinda life changing??
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We're featuring @AfroJediii and @sunummm at The Late(ish) Poetry Show on November 4th! Get your tickets today. thephillypigeon.org
ALT The background of the image is a multi-colored sky at sunset. In the mid ground of the image is a large yellow moon. On the moon is the text "The Late(ish) Poetry Show" and an image of a pigeon standing at a microphone. In the foreground is black person with a flower in their hair looking into the camera and a south asian person slightly smiling and looking off to the right.
On Wednesday I have the pleasure of moderating a reading and conversation with @novelniche & @MyNrhindi for @MAPBangalore. 9 AM EST, 6:30 PM IST. More info through the link below 🌹
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Humbled to share a new poem published in the summer issue of @IndianaReview . Beaming this one out to all my genderful kin, our endless fields.
Gratitude to the editors, and to @djrealboy_ for seeing and choosing this poem. Gratitude to you if you stop to read, share, feel.
“We came into this world / but were not of it: — of the refuse / but not the refined, the ritual of wormwood / but not waste. Here’s to the rot / in us, which would otherwise be abundance, / if we could be otherwise, / which would otherwise be alive if we could / otherwise be.”
New poem, who dis? 📞 This poem was originally commissioned by LACMA for Kehinde Wiley’s Obama portrait and I’m happy it has found its home in the @IndianaReview #TheBlackOutside
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THE POETS ARE FINALLY THE ONLY PEOPLE WHO KNOW THE TRUTH ABOUT US TRUST ME BRO SOLDIERS DON'T STATESMEN DON'T PRIESTS DON'T UNION LEADERS DON'T ONLY THE POETS SOMETHING AWFUL IS HAPPENING TO A CIVILIZATION WHEN IT CEASES TO BELIEVE IN THE REPORT THAT ONLY POETS CAN MAKE YOU KNOW
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This issue of @IndianaReview is LIVE yo everyone is in here: @francinejharris @literari_ana @jasonbcrawford @blckrdaberry @DashaunDub @sunummm @joshuaburton23 @itsKayPrice @brownroundboi @ruthellenkocher Geeeeeeez 🔥❤️🔥🔥
“Skin had hope, that's what skin does. / Heals over the scarred place, makes a road. / Love means you breathe in two countries.”
—Naomi Shihab Nye
poets.org/poem/two-countries
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“At a certain point, I lost you. I came to know it first / as a weather” —@Sunummm, “Lament,” from our Winter 2020 issue: vqronline.org/poetry/2020/12…
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"There is a country I come from, and a God I return to.
In the land where they meet, there is no word
for what we are; so I may love you and belong
only to your bread and root?"
–Sanam Sheriff @sunummm (Issue 15 | Folio | Split Tongues)
natbrut.com/sanam-sheriff
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“There is a pulse to Urdu that cannot be translated. There is a lexicon of context that cannot, should not, be explained. There is a beat to Urdu that stiffens in my American mouth…”
a gift to find a mirror in these words
for @poetrymagazine, i wrote about the ghazal, and my peculiar relationship to the form—it being in my name & all.
this is my first, earnest essay 🥲 would love for you to read: poetryfoundation.org/harriet…
Here in ONE hour 🌹🌹🌹
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@isjonespoetry @screamlnour @sunummm & Nora Hikari at @ShadeLitArts’ Kick Your Feet Up reading tonight giving y’all everything you need and more!
4pm PST / 6pm CT / 7pm EST! And it’s FREE!
shadeliteraryarts.org/kyfu
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i'm reading alongside @screamlnour , Nora Hikari, & @sunummm in 8 days for @ShadeLitArts Kick Up Your Feet Reading Series
Excited to share that on April 28th @ShadeLitArts will be having our 2nd virtual iteration of our Kick Your Feet Up Reading Series ft. Nora Hikari, @isjonespoetry, @screamlnour, & @sunummm! Free to attend.
Register here: bit.ly/3iYhsUA
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"I have waited and waited to hold / my grief ... I trained her / to stand behind doors, to exit as laughter from my / throat." Read a new poem by @freedewi:
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