Publications

Poems

The Offing 

• Ghazal

Split This Rock/The Quarry

• Mehfil

Poetry Daily

• January 9th, 2008

Poem-A-Day, Academy of American Poets

• A Love Note
• The Gods of the Age

Peste Magazine

• Protest
• Yaman, an Evening Raga
• The Earthen Pot
• Nimrod’s Flame
• Shaam-e-firaaq: The Evening of Separation

Poetry at Sangam

• In the forge/the beloved a flame
• Prayer
• You, too,
• Deluge

Glass: A Journal of Poetry

• A Song For My Nation
• Rahguzar: The Path
• On Lightning And Rest

The Blue Nib Literary Magazine

• Maintaining social distance through the language of longitudes – An International, Multilingual Collaboration

Los Angeles Review of Books.

• Ah!

Anomaly

• On Ghazal Shaa’irri vs. Natural Shaa’irii
• Asymptote
• The first three weeks of war

 Poets House

• When in the dark/my mind brightened

Sundress Publications

• You’re getting older, and there are such few boys
• For Joshua Rubin

The Margins

• Disorder
• Fanaa: End of Self
• Dividing Line

The Friday Influence

• 5 Poems
• God

Santa Ana River Review

• Of Water

Solstice Magazine

• For Qays

The Aleph Review 

• Episode
• A Song for Begum Akhtar
• Aaqa (print)
• In Exile (print)

Meridian (print)

• “Tell the angels not to touch me/ without permission”
• On Beauty

Muse/A (print)

• Mumtaz Sahib of the Round Glasses

Washington Square Review (print)

• If It Were

Salamander Magazine (print)

• A Robe of This World
• The Scaffold’s Branch
• The Coming of Spring
• for Majnoon

New Moons Anthology: Contemporary Writing by North American Muslims (print)

• Ghazal
• January 9th, 2008

World Poetry Tree Anthology (print)

• Khamaaj

The World I Leave You Anthology: Asian American Poets on Faith & Spirit (print)

• Clot
• God
• On Beauty

Essays

“Where My Dreaming and My Loving Live: Poetry & the Body, Part II: The Body as Idol, Nation, and Revolution.” Los Angeles Review of Books.

“Let Us Today Enter the Bazaar in Shackles: On Revolution, Madness, & Exile.” The Margins.

The Music Room: On losing and finding Hindustani classical music. The Baffler Magazine.

“The Art of Unraveling: Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Comb,” Rhino Magazine

“On the Intricate and Fathomless: Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Comb,” World Literature Today.

“‘Love at Eighty?’: The Lady of Ghazal Recites Iran.” Co-authored with Aria Fani. Huffington Post

Translations

Words Without Borders.

• “No, My Veil Is Stained” by Parveen Shakir 

Huffington Post

• “Ancient Eve” by Simin Behbahani, co-translated with Aria Fani

PBS Frontline (Co-translated with Aria Fani)