Performances

Upcoming

4/18/26- Poets House 40th Anniversary celebration & reading- 1-5 PM, 10 River Terrace, NYC

Past

11/15/25- Book launch for Shape of Extinction: Elliot Bay Bookstore- 7 PM PST

11/14/25- Celebrating the Ghazal across Eurasia- 6 PM PST (University of Washington campus)

9/28/25- Ghazal as a Performing Art- performance and panel discussion with Aseel Collective, 12 pm EST. Zoom link here. Passcode: ghazal.

4/12/25- Barzakh Majlis with Beyond Barzakh- Sound Mind Center, 202b Plymouth St, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY, 6 pm. Tickets here.

3/27/25- Brooklyn Raga Massive Ragini Festival with Ustad Salamat Ali, Saboor Aziz, & Malvika Jolly- Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St, New York, NY, doors at 6 pm. Tickets here.

12/20/24- Night of Ghazals– Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY, 7-9:30 pm

11/2/24- Screen/Print: Screening and Discussion– Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY, 2-4 pm, EST

9/28/24- 100,000 Poets for Change Reading with Agnes Scott College

6/28/24- Operation Gig, Porch Concert- Cortelyou and Marlborough, Brooklyn, NY

4/13/24- Writers for Palestine: Funding Against Censorship, The People’s Forum, 320 West 37th Street, New York, NY, 6:00-8:00 pm, EST

3/22/24- “Reading with Author Adeeba Shahid Talukder,” Smith Library, Shenandoah University, 6:00-7:30 pm, EST

1/7/24- Tamaas Translation Seminar Reading, 11 am EST

11/21/23- Reading at Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY

9/30/23- 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Frannie Graves Auditorium, Campbell Hall, Agnes Scott College

7/14/23- Performance as inaugural Spotlight Poet at Solstice MFA Reading Series, Lasell University Arnow Campus Center, Auburndale, MA, 7:30 pm, EST

7/6/23- Ballads in Battery Park City with Asian American Writers’ Workshop, Rector Park East, New York, NY, 7 pm EST

5/18/23- Reading with Suffolk University, alongside Rooja Mohassessy and Hanan Tuffaha, 6 pm EST (Virtual)

12/2/22- Poets for Pakistan, Bridge Community Cafe, Ypsilanti, MI, 7 pm EST

9/24/22- 100 Thousand Poets for Change, Frannie Graves Auditorium, Campbell Hall, Agnes Scott College, 1:30 pm EST (Hybrid)

5/19/22- Our Existence Is A Rebellion, 7 pm EST

3/25/22- Tupelo Press Reading at AWP 2022, 7 pm EST

3/25/22- Book-signing with Kundiman at AWP 2022, 4-5 pm EST, booth 923

3/10/22- Performance for CCCC (Conference on College Composition and Communication), 3 pm EST (Virtual)

2/27/22- New Third World Reading, 3 pm EST (Virtual)

10/19/21- 3rd Annual Tasveer South Asian LitFest reading + panel, 5 pm PST

6/11/21- RAWIFest Poetry Debuts Panel

4/9/21- Performance for CCCC (Conference for College Composition and Communication), 2:30 PM EST

4/8/21- Women Warriors: A Solidarity Reading, 7 pm EST

2/11/21- Interview with Yale University Radio

1/23/21- Reading with Beltway Poetry Review, 1 pm EST.

10/9/20- Kundiman Reading with New York University, 8 PM EST.

7/10/20- Good Words Reading Series, with Kip Miller. Curated by Lauren Prastien and Katie Willingham.

6/24/20- Wild and Precious Life Series, with January O’Neil, Paisley Rekdal, & Brendan Walsh. 7 pm EST.

5/27/20- Poetry in Protest: A Solidarity Reading. Co-sponsored by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and PEN America.

5/26/20– Poetry Is Bread, a distance reading series. Curated by Tina Cane.

5/10/20– Soul Sister Revue Reading

4/28/20– Night Poems Reading

4/24/20– Liberation Mic

4/18/20– Crucible with Faisal Mohyuddin, Rajiv Mohabir, & Katie Willingham, curated by Anthony Frame.

4/5/20– Tupelo Press Reading

3/26/20– Tupelo Press Reading

12/20/19– Featured Artist with Muslim Writers Collective. New Women Space, Brooklyn, NY.

7/6/19– Ars Poetica Reading with Nkosi Nkululeko. Algonquin Hotel, New York, NY.

6/28/19– Featured Artist at Liberation Mic. Justice Center en el Barrio, New York, NY.

4/18/19– City of Pearls Book Launch, with Sham-e-Ali Nayeem & Hollis Wong-Wear. Berl’s Brooklyn Poetry Shop, Brooklyn, NYC.

3/30/19– Literaoke, with AAWW, Kundiman, & Kaya Press. AWP 2019, Portland, OR.

3/29/19– Allama Iqbal’s Diasporic Children, with Faisal Mohyuddin, Shadab Zeest Hashmi, & Raza Ali Hassan. AWP 2019, Portland, OR.

3/28/19– Music Millenium Reading with A Dozen Nothing. AWP 2019, Portland, OR.

7/30/18– What Is Not Beautiful Book launch, with Shamar Hill and Tyree Daye. Cornelia Street Cafe, New York, NY.

7/18/18– Poetic Duels: Sheyr Jangi, with Marwa Helal, Haleh Liza Ghafori, & Jess Rizkallah. City Lore, New York, NY.

4/18/18– Translation/Migration Mixtape, with Raquel Salas Rivera, Asiya Wadud, Janice Lobo Sapigao, & Raquel Salas Riveral. Asian American Writers’ Workshop, New York, NY.

3/3/18– Poetry & The BodyPoets House, New York, NY.

2/3/18– Featured Poet for Closing Dinner for Zarina: Dark Roads. A/P/A Institute at NYU, New York, NY.

Recordings

2017 Emerging Poets Fellowship Reading at Poets House (Audio)

Poetry & The Body at Poets House (Audio)

Crucible Reading, with Faisal Mohyuddin, Rajiv Mohabir, and Katie Willingham. Curated by Anthony Frame

Poetry In Protest: A Solidarity Reading, with Asian American Writers’ Workshop & PEN America

Women Warriors: A Solidarity Reading, with Asian American Writers’ Workshop

Our Existence Is A Rebellion, with Sham-e-Ali Nayeem & Asian American Writers’ Workshop

“Hypothetically Speaking“, feature in Sham-e-Ali Nayeem’s poetry recording & musical composition as vocalist & translator (with Zara Khadeeja Majoka)

Hard Hat Reading Series, with Poets House

100 Thousand Poets For Change, with Agnes Scott College

Solstice MFA Reading Series, performance as inaugural Spotlight Poet

A Song for My Nation, featured in trailer for An American Prayer

Photo Credit: Fati Abubakar