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Poetry reminds me, daily, of the simultaneous singularity and plurality of human experience: for all our differences, for the ways in which we have attached meaning to those differences, hated...

Uniformity cannot exist in a typeface inspired by humanity.

I want to begin this editor’s note with gratitude.

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In my insistence on being the poet/essayist, I had managed to make myself the hero, to assume that I knew better than the poem. Perhaps this is in the western...

I had not been writing and, truthfully, I was contemplating abandoning poetry after decades of coming back to it time and time again.

Although love is less frequent in my mother tongue, it lasts longer. 

I have developed affinities for poems that provide a space to rest. This is not to say that poetry can or should avert one’s eyes from political realities, but it...

When my father explained that I was named for an elevated poetic form, that an entire region’s poetic pride was embedded in my name, ghazals became a source of wonder...